<p dir="ltr">Nick, I despair. Every single little-text blue email that comes in from you leaves me more and more concerned for community radio.</p>
<p dir="ltr">You appear to make two points here:</p>
<p dir="ltr">1. You applied for a coverage area that you don't now want and now you want to change it. Somehow this is someone else's fault: Ofcom, or government, or Ed Vaisey, or the CMA's. It is "unfair", a "circus" and a "debacle".</p>
<p dir="ltr">2. You want to broadcast music but don't want to pay for it or report it. Somehow this is all PPL's fault. They are "doughnuts".</p>
<p dir="ltr">With every pronouncement - every one of which is publicly published and none of which is challenged by anyone else - you underline the widely-held view that community radio is run by a bunch of amateur nutcases. That isn't fair on community radio, but it's hardly surprising that one of RadioCentre's concerns about community radio is that it devalues radio as a whole.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Heaven knows, this is advice I should take, too - but I do wish, for the sake of the industry I love so much, that you'd just shut up.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Best,</p>
<p dir="ltr">James<br>
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