[cma-l] PPL and PRS for Music consultation for community radio stations

[Canalside's The Thread]

For those of us with selective memory loss, please note that the JOINT Licence proposal has been our proposal for the last 4 years. (I always like to claim this, but I’m sure I suggested it first)(just like the national advertising scheme) The PRS/PPL dismissed it outright from the outset ………… I have the e-mails and correspondence going back years to confirm this.

The consultation should have been with us at Conference and then the CMA have the chin-wag with the PRS/PPL ……… we will all be sending our opinions into the ‘consultation’ and then hey presto, we’ll all get picked off one by one.

 

We will then either get :-

 

1)      A bum deal but we think it is a good deal

2)      A bum deal but Radio experts will tell us it’s a good deal (we’ve already had that one and the consultation hasn’t started)

3)      A mediocre deal that we won’t really understand with small print that knobbles you if you are a naughty boy

4)      A good deal when the Pigs start flying

5)      Or      a good deal    :)       do we actually know what is a good deal ?     what’s the policy ?

 

All we want is a FAIR deal taking into account what we are trying to achieve and that our jobs are lower paid / voluntary but we work harder as we are dealing with in the main none experts and trainees. We are running twice as fast as everyone else to stand still. We don’t need rules, regulations, restrictions that make us go backwards.

 

This isn’t rocket science.

 

Like I say …. This consultation has come about from this end to their end and not the other way around.

 

To be honest, I’m quite happy with what we’ve got at the moment … we pay the S/O and they leave us alone … win/win situation. The problems start when/if they come mithering again.

 

By the way     what do we think ???   no one knows ?    what Policy do we have ?     Do we as a collective body think it is OK at the mo, not OK, unreasonable ?  very good ?       I don’t know ?      I know what one or two individuals think but not what we think as a collective body           and here lies the problem.

 

Rag Tag and Bobtail   but   no ones fault    it is circumstances and lack of funding.

 

Mr Humpty

 

From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of CMA-L
Sent: 16 September 2016 14:18
To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Subject: [cma-l] PPL and PRS for Music consultation for community radio stations

 

As an initial step in the consultation process, PPL and PRS for Music consulted with the Community Media Association to seek our views on the proposed Joint Licence.

 

Following positive discussions with the licensing agencies, the CMA acknowledges the headline terms of the Joint Licence proposal and we welcome the simplified approach and reduced administration for the community radio sector.

 

The new Joint Licence creates one point of contact to obtain the rights to broadcast music simplifying the licensing process for community radio stations.

 

The proposed Joint Licence requires community radio stations to submit one NBR form at the end of the calendar year reducing the number of reports that stations have to produce from three to one.

 

There is a simplified and improved structure for Internet simulcast services increasing the minimum band of concurrent user streams from 50 to 200 concurrent listeners.

 

And lastly, something for which the CMA takes some credit is the inclusion of an optional right for simulcasting on DAB for £200 for the first multiplex and £131 for each additional multiplex per year - a considerable saving on the current offer of £716 per annum. We see this as a significant concession for those community radio stations currently simulcasting on small-scale DAB and those looking forward to taking up the opportunity of broadcasting on this platform in the future.

 

Responses to the consultation must be submitted by 13th October 2016.

 

http://www.ppluk.com/communityradio

 

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