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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Terry's certainly right on the first point.<div>The operative word is "management".<br>SMs have said just that to me before - "They're volunteers - you can't give them orders because you're not paying them"</div><div>Do I need to elaborate on that?</div><div>And don't start me off about "rights"!<br>As for the second - CR stations are so varied in their output that there really isn't anything in common other than their status.</div><div>That's why I'd like to see simply a unified generic but also promotional mission statement every hour to help comply with the Ofcom rule about sector identity.<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: cma-l@commedia.org.uk<br>Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:33:01 +0000<br>To: cma-l@commedia.org.uk<br>Subject: [cma-l] Cat Among The Pigeons...!<br><br><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Terry Doyle <<a href="mailto:terrydoyle@nnbc.co.uk">terrydoyle@nnbc.co.uk</a>><br><br>Hi<br><br>I have spent some time reading through some of the threads here and my temperature is rising slowly as my anger threshold gets closer. Two points!<br><br><u><b>1.Presenters With Their Own Agenda?</b></u><br><br>What are they doing on your station in the first place and more importantly, why do you allow them to broadcast in the first place?<br><br>It doesn’t matter if they are volunteers! Just because you don’t pay them does not give them the right to use your station to broadcast the little radio station in their heads.<br><br>Solution! Get them to sign a voluntary agreement that says they follow the station format/guidelines designed by you - The Station Manager (you have got a written station/programmes format… don’t you?).<br><br>If they don’t sign this agreement, they don’t get within fifty yards of a mic. If they do sign and break the rules then… you can wave goodbye and replace them with someone who will follow station direction…simple!<br><br>Presenters on air with their own agenda = weak programme management.<br><br><b><u>2. Common Station Imaging Across Community Radio</u></b><br><br>NO NO NO. We are NOT a network and when we start to think we are… we move towards our own downfall!<br><br>Think individuality, creativity and innovation.<br><br>Terry Doyle<br><br>NNBC<br></div>
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