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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi Phil,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The current regulation doesn’t create a level playing field
for CR and the more the CMA promote that the sector is content with the
regulations the wider the divide will, come digital switch over.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>You will be aware that the vast majority of the current regulations
were put in place to protect commercial interests, not to assist the development
of CR. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The regulations have created what amounts to a cottage industry with
1000s of people committed to provide a high quality service. If we are to grow,
then we should not encourage any feeling that the regulatory status quo is in any
way satisfactory – it is not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Alan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Alan Coote<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Managing Director <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Phil Korbel
[mailto:phil.korbel@googlemail.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> 13 October 2009 10:32<br>
<b>To:</b> Alan Coote; CMA-L<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [comradio-l] [cma-l] Radio Academy podcast<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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>
<br>
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>
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2009/10/12 Alan Coote <<a
href="mailto:alan.coote@btinternet.com">alan.coote@btinternet.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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>
<br>
<br>
Alan<br>
<br>
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Subject: [cma-l] Radio Academy podcast<br>
<br>
The latest edition of RadioTalk from The Radio Academy features Jaqui<br>
Devereux, Director of the CMA and Clive Dickens, Chief Operations<br>
Officer at Absolute Radio in discussion about new revenue sources, the<br>
digital switchover and what the future of radio is actually going to<br>
look like:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.radioacademy.org/listen/podcasts/" target="_blank">http://www.radioacademy.org/listen/podcasts/</a><br>
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