[cma-l] Invitation of applications for community radio licences
BUTLER GREG
greg.butler at ntlworld.com
Tue Jul 18 16:25:01 BST 2017
I can see that when the Community stations are "community of interest" rather
than just a station for a city, area or region, then overlap can surely occur -
ie one station serving say the muslim community and one station dedicated to
say, the Arts - then overlap in transmission area is entirely possible.
Greg
> On 18 July 2017 at 15:26 Canalside's Thread events guide for NE Cheshire
> <office at thethread.org.uk> wrote:
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> Explained more to the point, briefer and possibly better than my
> assessment Shirley--- but nonetheless the end result being the same. Words
> like ‘competition’ ‘need’ ‘small scale’ etc etc spring to mind …. These
> are the famous buzzwords used previously, but now the goalposts have gone on
> walkabouts again and we have same set of rules but viewed from the other
> angle.
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> You honestly couldn’t write the script on this lot.
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> You may recall I had a ding dong with James on this message board about 3
> years ago ……. I stick to my guns and say that I feel I am right. The whole
> thing is a complete debacle, are folk making it up as they go along ?
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> So if I’m correct you would now have 2 Community Stations allegedly up
> against the Local Commercial Outfit, if the Community Station wasn’t of a
> different ilk, then they also would be competing against each other. However,
> regardless of what they deliver, the funding opportunities might be the same
> anyway, thus reducing the size of an already existent Cup Cake. I can feel A i
> told you so coming on again ……… are we going to take bets on which one of our
> wonderful fraternity is going to go down the pan owing to this announcement ?
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> With reference to that classic phrase ‘’expression of interest’’
> from what I can recall we offered plenty of expressions of both interest
> and frustration over the years with in the main no one paying a blind bit of
> notice. I I don’t understand this one I have to admit ---- I
> think my legs have been whooshed and whipped from under me.
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> I had to laugh at the small scale commercial radio list ----- relevant to
> us here of course in Cheshire, it says Dee …. Dee being part of the same group
> as Silk who also already have a DAB Station and these are ‘small scale’
> at the bottom of the website it actually reads DEE GROUP
> someone’s avin a Giraffe again I
> repeat, you couldn’t write this script if you tried. It’s only the fact that
> it is so highly entertaining that prevents us all from going doo-lally.
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> Nick H Dumpty keep chucklin’ everyone onwards and
> upwards
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> From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk
> [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Shirley Ludford
> Sent: 18 July 2017 13:56
> To: The Community Media Association Discussion List
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> Subject: Re: [cma-l] Invitation of applications for community radio
> licences
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> Overlapping cover is not helpful to pre-existing Stations, I would have
> thought, and somewhat removes the need to identify a need...?
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> Shirls
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> Sent: Tuesday, 18 July 2017, 11:11
> Subject: [cma-l] Invitation of applications for community radio licences
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> Ofcom is today inviting applications for new community radio licences for
> areas within, or those that overlap with, the coverage area of existing
> community radio services. These applications will be for services operating on
> FM only:
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> https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/104651/invitation-overlapping-areas.pdf
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> The closing date for applications is Tuesday 24 October 2017 at 3pm.
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