[cma-l] C R Licensing - the Methodology

[Ian Hickling]

I was Neil - and you have clearly spoken for the station.
I totally agree that a Board or the equivalent is an advantage - I've been on a few - but "committee management" designed the camel - and a "team" philosophy in my experience simply doesn't produce good management.
As with running the country - sorry - what works best is a benevolent dictator.


Ian Hickling

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Speak for yourself!

(That says it all really!)

Neil Munday
Operations Director
Susy Radio 103.4

A community radio station with a board who work our socks off!

On 31 May 2017 at 08:22, Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com<mailto:transplanfm at hotmail.com>> wrote:


It's just struck me how Ofcom and indeed the Government have got it just a bit wrong with Community Radio.
Look at any CR station.
What do you see?
An Area?
A Community?
An Organisation?
No
You see one person - one motivated dedicated let's-just-get-it-done person.
Ed Vaizey during his time as Minister is on record as saying that Government policy is that every community that wants its own radio station should have one.
Excellent.
But communities don't act as one and it's impossible to get a decision or useful action out of a community without having a focal point.
The root cause is the "team" philosophy.
Teams don't make decisions.
As we've said before - in the most efficient organisations there is no "f" in team.
Ofcom is wasting its own and our time in putting the invitation to submit a CR Application out to areas under this hypothetical "fairness" principle.
When all these additional Applications are in, let's look at how many *viable* ones we have - in addition to those from EOIs
I suspect very very few.
Q E D - as Pythagoras is reputed to have exclaimed



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