[cma-l] C R Licensing - the Methodology

[Mike Davison]

The 'team' concept is working well at our station because it consists of 
people with a wide range of skills from management in finance and in 
local government to computer engineering with a couple of radio amateurs 
thrown in for good measure. Basically we are people who know how to do 
'things' to aid our presenters do what they want in order to entertain 
and inform our area. We are a committee but respect each other to be 
specialists in their ideas when discussing station matters. A station 
run solely by 'producers' is surely a recipe for disaster and should be 
discouraged.

Mike Davison, Tempo FM, Wetherby.


On 01/06/2017 10:40, Richard Hilton wrote:
>
> I’m not sure what’s worse; us becoming an ‘industry’ with our own coat 
> of arms or community radio being run by benevolent dictators (see 
> Ian’s previous email ‘As with running the country - sorry - what works 
> best is a benevolent dictator’)!
>
> Cheers
>
> Richard
>
> *From:*cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk 
> [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] *On Behalf Of *Ian Hickling
> *Sent:* 01 June 2017 08:51
> *To:* cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
> *Cc:* Community Media mailing <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
> *Subject:* Re: [cma-l] C R Licensing - the Methodology
>
> Thanks Trevor.
> I do very sincerely endorse your last point - that community 
> broadcasters have so much more to offer than the Beeb will ever realise.
> Translated  into Latin that is:
>
> Possit scire plura quam corporate
>
> and it can be on our Industry achievement of arms
>
> Ian Hickling
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> <mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk>> on behalf of Trevor 
> Lockwood <lockwood at btinternet.com <mailto:lockwood at btinternet.com>>
> *Sent:* 31 May 2017 22:04:10
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> *Subject:* Re: [cma-l] C R Licensing - the Methodology
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> Ian
>
> I agree. An individual or a very close-knit team - even with a team 
> there has to be someone in charge.
>
> It’s very difficult, and I suspect some stations decay because the a) 
> one person gets fed up or b) an alternative leader tries to take over.
>
> >From my own experience I had competition - a small group who wanted 
> to turn the station into a money-making machine. I’d b been at it for 
> six years, and we had 65 volunteers, and it was doing well enough. I 
> didn’t fight to retain control - but the money-makers had left within 
> a month, quickly realising they couldn’t make cash. The station has 
> struggled ever since (IMHO). It’s coming up to 10 years old, not sure 
> of Ofcom are interested enough to notice that it is still trying to be 
> commercial, has very few presenters, whose egos play the music they 
> like, and who have never understood what community meant.
>
> I’m concerned now that the BBC seem to have won the right to control - 
> and are playing the ‘big boss’. That’s a great pity because 
> potentially the community broadcasters have so much more to offer than 
> the Beeb will ever realise.
>
> That’s another story.
>
> Trevor Lockwood
> once of Felixstowe Radio
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