[cma-l] C R Licensing - the Methodology

[Paul Pennington]

Well said Neil.?

Paul Pennington
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> On 31 May 2017, at 19:15, Neil Munday <neilm at susyradio.com> wrote:
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> Speak for yourself!
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> (That says it all really!) 
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> Neil Munday
> Operations Director 
> Susy Radio 103.4
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> A community radio station with a board who work our socks off!
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> On 31 May 2017 at 08:22, Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> It's just struck me how Ofcom and indeed the Government have got it just a bit wrong with Community Radio.
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>> Look at any CR station.
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>> What do you see?
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>> An Area?
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>> A Community?
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>> An Organisation?
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>> No
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>> You see one person - one motivated dedicated let's-just-get-it-done person.
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>> 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.
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>> Excellent.
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>> 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.
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>> The root cause is the "team" philosophy.
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>> Teams don't make decisions.
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>> As we've said before - in the most efficient organisations there is no "f" in team.
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>> 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.
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>> When all these additional Applications are in, let's look at how many *viable* ones we have - in addition to those from EOIs
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>> I suspect very very few.
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>> Q E D - as Pythagoras is reputed to have exclaimed
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>> Ian Hickling
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