[cma-l] C R Licensing - the Methodology

[Neil Munday]

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> 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
>
>
> Ian Hickling
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