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As well as all the other excellent directions posited thus far there
are 3 other areas that are KEY & NOW for CR<br>
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<li>cracking the selling of commercial space on our non-profit
stations, in general and with a national and accessible frontage to
that activity, freeing us more from grant funding and working towards
unrestricted cash income for sustainability<br>
</li>
<li>creating a respected 3rd party audience figure/reach methodology
that has nothing to do with the statistical nonsense that is RAJAR</li>
<li>finding some way to provide news which isn't IRN (for those that
don't think it's for us like we do) and one which also doesn't
contribute to the destruction of newspapers and journalism in general</li>
</ol>
They are my areas of development both here in Cambridge, and beyond
where I can, and passionately believe that they need attention and <b>now
</b>because I know how long things take, in this game<br>
<br>
K<br>
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From: Richard Laurence <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rjhlaurence@mac.com"><rjhlaurence@mac.com></a>
Hi Phil,
Just two thoughts:
1. Local TV on Freeview: can one or more local services be
accommodated on regional freeview multiplexes in place of the numerous
national shopping channels? Or if a dedicated "local" multiplex is
created in each area, will there be legislation to ensure the channels
on it remain local? Otherwise I can see "local" multiplex owners
selling the airtime to shopping channels.
2. FM: moving national radio off FM is madness as it will make tens of
millions of FM radios unable to receive national channels. The upshot
of that would be people who are forced to buy new digital radios would
have no incentive to go to FM to look for local stations which would
effectively be on an obsolete system. Either all stations of every
size are given DAB frequencies or they all stay on FM (my preferred
option). It ain't broke so don't fix it.
Cheers,
Richard Laurence
On 4 Aug 2009, at 12:32, CMA-L <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk"><cma-l@commedia.org.uk></a> wrote:
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Dear Members and Friends
The CMA Council meets tomorrow in Glasgow, hosted on this occasion by Awaz FM.
Our agenda includes:
- feedback and next steps post Digital Britain
- strategies to support for the sector campaign for increasing the
size of the Community Radio Fund (which includes the petition to
Gordon Brown)
- prospects for Community & Local Television in the wake of lacklustre
support from Lord Carter's report
- update on the emerging Make Media Project
- development of streaming and other member services
- UK sector relations with European colleagues and opportunities therein
- schedule for regional CMA meetings over the next few months
Thoughts and contributions welcomed from all today or first thing
tomorrow via this list.
I will provide feedback fcrom the meeting by the end of next week.
Best wishes
Phil Shepherd
Chair of Council
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