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My meaning of "commercial" was purely in the business structure sense.<BR>
Agreed, how you align your spening is vital.<BR>
Putting hard-earned money into attending conferences and the like isn't right.<BR>
I don't see a little empire-building in CR as wrong as long as the job in hand gets done openly and efficiently.<BR>
One good CR station taking over and running a neighbour in trouble can't surely be a bad thing.<BR>
Getting retired local prople in to contribute useful material is great.<BR>
But letting them do what they feel like with no structure and no targeting of the planned audience spells disaster.<BR>
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Ian Hickling<BR>
Partner<BR>
transplan UK<BR>
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Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 08:19:33 +0100<BR>From: gary.jackson1@btinternet.com<BR>To: cma-l@commedia.org.uk<BR>Subject: Re: [cma-l] Steve Penk criticises Community Radio Fund Award in letter to PM <FONT id=ecxrole_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><BR></FONT><BR>I think far too many community stations are too commercial to be honest.<BR><BR>Some of the postings on this list about conferences in far away places, and matched funding which will only cost £x,000 seems to me to people getting carried away with their own empire building.<BR><BR>A station I know has village correspondents - usually long retired - record short pieces about events around them and things like parish council meetings are mentioned as well. That, to me is the sort of thing community radio should be doing.<BR><BR>If indeed a Community Station did receive £40,000 for a new Regional Sales Manager then I agree with what Penk says and can fully understand his feelings.<BR><BR>It's natural in a way. Ambitious presenters can't get on commercial stations, so to paraphrase Cliff in Summer Holiday "We'll do the commercial station right here!" <BR><BR>It's not right though in my opinion<BR><BR>Gary<BR> </body>
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