[cma-l] C R Licensing - the Methodology

Thu Jun 1 14:19:50 BST 2017

Horses for Courses .... whatever runs best for your Station. Obviously a
Committee full of likeminded respectful people is the ideal end result .
trouble is, as in my last post, we ain't in an ideal World    and   this is
Radio and egos have to be factored in. The stick of dynamite that we all
have to deal with, is the Volunteer mentality (the bad one) coupled with the
bad ego .. that is a recipe for disaster. You only sort those folk out by
the means already mentioned.

In 14 Years we've only had to shift 4 .. Which to be honest I think isn't
bad. Thank goodness these folk got flirted before they ever got anywhere
near to a Committee

Nick

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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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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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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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