Why not celebrate our own as our own?<div><br></div><div>Why not have the CRA - Community Radio Awards? After a while they will have their own prestige and standing. Like the student radio awards that are now held in some regard within the industry, its also a great event to celebrate a growing great sector of radio. Not to mention if people start putting awards in with that, get good feedback not only does it allow them to grow as a station / show / presenter but also give them experience in putting submissions together for things like the sonys..</div>
<div><br></div><div>Would be more than happy to be involved in a project like this, i have some experience of the SRA awards, putting submissions together etc</div><div><br></div><div>Martin</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Joanne Schofield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joanne@bcfm.org.uk">joanne@bcfm.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Ed, it really is a shame, I whole heartedly agree.<br>
We, as a sector, have so much talent and potential<br>
I feel we can easily compete with the BBC and Commercial stations.<br>
Phil and I from BCfm were up at the nomination event on Wednesday, having<br>
put<br>
two applications in ourselves for BCfm - We had already won the Best South<br>
West<br>
for under 300,000 and so got a 'free' automatic entry to the Sony's but we<br>
invested<br>
our £120 for the other application and a few more hundred pounds in the<br>
hours it took<br>
us to put it all together because we were very proud of the audio, believed<br>
in it and thought<br>
it deserved a higher profile - local BBC had already featured it.<br>
<br>
However I believe putting together these applications requires the<br>
expertise, time and insider<br>
knowledge and experience that, clearly, the BBC and commercial networks<br>
have.<br>
<br>
As the evening went on, and one BBC station after another (plus minimal<br>
others) got nominated my heart did begin<br>
to sink for us all, I really know how much it would mean to our volunteers<br>
to be recognised in<br>
this way. To be honest, it also got very boring and I felt like I had<br>
gate-crashed someone<br>
else's party!<br>
<br>
If I recall, we had this debate on the forum last year about whether people<br>
were going to put forward<br>
applications for nominations and as a sector we were very divided in our<br>
opinion (and long may that last)<br>
Should we pay?<br>
Should we have our own category?<br>
Should we stick to our principles and forget these awards and spend time on<br>
our volunteers and our community?<br>
<br>
.........or should we ask the BBC for some expertise and 'funding in kind' to<br>
help us put together some potentially awarding winning<br>
entries - what about that for Partnership working? Just a thought.<br>
<br>
Joanne Schofield<br>
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I am genuinely curious to know: has the community radio community in<br>
general given up on the Sonys? or have the Sonys given up on community<br>
radio? Or both?<br>
Ed<br>
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