[cma-l] C R Licensing - the Methodology

Thu Jun 1 13:04:02 BST 2017

So so right Mike!

Neil
On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 13:02, Mike Davison <mike.g1sbn at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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> *From:* cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [
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> <cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk>] *On Behalf Of *Ian Hickling
> *Sent:* 01 June 2017 08:51
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> *Subject:* Re: [cma-l] C R Licensing - the Methodology
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>
> 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
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> and it can be on our Industry achievement of arms
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> Ian Hickling
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> *From:* cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk <
> cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk> on behalf of Trevor Lockwood <
> 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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