well Alan <br><br>Of course the CR Fund is way too small - and of course there shd be no protection for small ILR stations via station or advertising bans<br><br>But I'm guessing that you'd like to see a homogenised, conglomerated - semi commercial community sector...<br>
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Because that's what we'll get if advertising is the main route to revenue and joint ownership is permitted... [there are many ways to get economies of scale without joint ownership]<br><br>And no route to digital - that's because DAB doesnt do local so it's useless for us.<br>
<br>Far better to have a retained FM allocation after larger stations have gone to DAB - and then to the Web when the Digital Divide is history.<br><br>There are big flaws in the regulation but the free market will kill the sector stone dead<br>
<br><br>best wishes<br><br>Phil<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/12 Alan Coote <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.coote@btinternet.com">alan.coote@btinternet.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Having listened to the Podcast I have to say I totally disagree with the<br>
statement made by Jaqui that community radio benefits from the current<br>
regulations.<br>
<br>
There is no evidence that this is the case. In fact to the contrary, current<br>
regulations has well and truly placed Community Radio as a 3rd class citizen<br>
behind the BBC and commercial radio.<br>
<br>
With a woefully inadequate community radio fund, an arbitrary limit on<br>
coverage, no realistic path to digital and no economies of scale because of<br>
limits on ownership, then its beggars belief that the regulations are in any<br>
way helping the sector.<br>
<br>
Commercial radio must be laughing all the way the their deregulated future.<br>
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Alan<br>
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