[cma-l] Community Radio Fund mini-survey

Wed May 25 15:59:37 BST 2016

Yes, the BBC’s money to spend, not just as it wishes, but I think it probably has a pretty good internal business case for this particular spend from the news budget.

Absolutely, I would say community stations that carry local news should be in there now pitching to get access to all the material – for free, since the BBC would probably use that access as part of its supporting case justifying the plan. Or maybe the CMA should make an approach on behalf of all.

Alex

From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Martin Steers
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So thats BBC's money to sort of spend as they wish. Its also to fund the BBC employment of staff into "qualifying local news organisations" so just cash for newspapers.

There may be scope to engage with the BBC to unpick whats involved and to see if community stations can be classified into these "qualifying local news organisations" for journalists into stations (to not mention access to local video etc).

Martin 

On 25 May 2016 at 12:53, Two Lochs Radio <tlr at gairloch.co.uk <mailto:tlr at gairloch.co.uk> > wrote:

As per previous postings, Ron, the money would come from the licence fee. The BBC reckons it is a good value for money (£8m/year) in news gathering, giving it and other local media better and cost-effective coverage of local news, particular things such as local authority and public utility news stories.

For more details of how the BBC sees it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2016/bbc-nma-partnership

Alex

On 25 May 2016 at 12:18 Ron Millet <ronm at bridging-thegap.co.uk <mailto:ronm at bridging-thegap.co.uk> > wrote:

The real set of questions to ask is.

1) where is the money for newspaper journalists coming from?

2) if it has come from Ofcom or DCMS resources from what sector has it been taken?

3) what legislation and relevant section gives authority for granting these monies?

Sent from my iPad

On 25 May 2016, at 19:59, Tony Bailey <ravensound at pilgrimsound.co.uk <mailto:ravensound at pilgrimsound.co.uk> > wrote:

One possibility Nick (dredging the memory banks here) wasn't there a proposal to introduce community Beeb websites which was seen by some to undermine local press?  

Tony Bailey

On 23/05/16 12:32, Canalside's The Thread wrote:

QUOTE: 

………I ask the question again and I have asked via my local MP / Mr Vaizey      this money that has suddenly appeared from nowhere to fund Newspaper Journalists (which has absolutely nothing to do with Radio !)(unless I have missed something?)      

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From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk <mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk>  [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Bill Best
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Subject: [cma-l] Community Radio Fund mini-survey

Hi

Just in case people didn't see this email buried in the long thread entitled 'Community Radio Fund & the CMA' I'm reposting this in a new thread to give it higher profile.

The CMA informed DCMS in its 2014 Community Radio Consultation that we had held a consultation meeting in Sheffield in April 2014 at which members attending the meeting "unanimously put forward the view that the Community Radio Fund should be distributed equally to all eligible stations rather than on a contested basis as is now". However it was apparent at the time that not all members supported that view.

The original question put forward by DCMS in its 2014 Consultation was as follows:

Question 7 – How can Community Radio Fund grant funding be better used. 

There are no plans to alter how decisions are taken to distribute the grant however we welcome views on other ways in which the grant could be better targeted and how might this be done. 

Interestingly there is no acknowledgement of Question 7 in the Government Response to the Consultation on Community Radio here: http://bit.ly/1XmMLaA

The advice I have received on this so far is that a change to how the Community Radio Fund is distributed would not be impossible. However to distribute the Fund equally between all licensed stations would require a substantial change on which DCMS "would probably need to consult".

The agreement between DCMS and Ofcom is written by DCMS - the Fund belongs to DCMS and is merely administered by Ofcom. The Funding Agreement for the next four years now requires updating. For the current year (2016/17), substantial change is not envisaged - the first round of the Fund <http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/radio/community-radio-fund/>  is already open for applications and closes next week on Thursday 26th May.

Going forward, DCMS will look more broadly at the CRF to reflect the secured funding of £400,000 for community radio for 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20. Other options for distributing the Fund will be considered.

This week, the CMA has again indicated to DCMS that a proposal to distribute the CRF equally amongst licensed stations remains popular and the CMA will collate the views expressed on this mailing list and submit them to DCMS and to Ofcom. There is also an online form here for members to submit their feedback:

http://bit.ly/2016CRF

We will keep this 'mini-survey' open until 30th June.

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