<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Ian - I'm not sure if it was Rajar, but I was stopped and asked on the street once - many years ago. I recall it was quite a detailed survey that took 10 minutes or so.<br><br></div>.....but virtually all the stations I listened to at the time (Laser558, Caroline, Nova, Sunshine...) were not on their tick-box list!<br><br></div>Glyn<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 October 2015 at 14:55, Ian Hickling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:transplanfm@hotmail.com" target="_blank">transplanfm@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">Oh no!<br>RAJAR might be the only commercial survey available, but it's hugely expensive and has a worthlessly low sample size.<br>Advertisers are duped into believing it because there simply isn't anything else.<div>Persuade me I'm wrong.<br>I've never yet in 15 years in this Industry sector ever met anyone who has participated.<div><span class=""><br><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="3"><b>Ian Hickling</b><br></font></div><font style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:12pt" size="3"><font style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Partner</font></font><br><br><a href="http://www.transplanuk.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://www.transplanuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/transplan_UK_weblogo_190x60.png"></a><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><i><font size="3">Office: 01635 578435 (7am-11pm UK time)</font></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><i><font size="3">Carphone: 07530 980115 (only responds when driving)</font></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><i><font size="3">6 Horn Street, Compton, NEWBURY, RG20 6QS</font></i></div></div><br><br></span><div><hr>Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:10:31 +0100<br>From: <a href="mailto:alan.coote@5digital.co.uk" target="_blank">alan.coote@5digital.co.uk</a><div><div class="h5"><br>To: <a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a><br>Subject: Re: [cma-l] Review of the approach to community radio Key Commitments<br><br><div><div>Bill,</div><div><br></div><div>Isn’t the point that broadcasting must be the fundamental vehicle by which Community Stations deliver their Key Commitments? If a station chooses to deliver them by any other means then Ofcom shouldn't be concerned with that. I think that’s where they are heading – although it could be better expressed.</div><div><br></div><div>We know there are very many stations which have undertaken off-air activities to meet their social gain objectives which, although worthy, may have been achieved without the use of a radio transmitter. A factor is of course the need to chase grand funding, but sadly very little is predicated on access to a radio station. </div><div><br></div><div>Surely the only data that matters is how many people in the target group listen to the station, after that qualitative data can be used to better target the group. </div><div><br></div><div>I go back to my point that very few stations deem it necessary to survey their audience! A radical thought; as RAJAR collect and collate data anyway, would it not be possible for community stations to pay a nominal fee to be part of an official survey, the remainder of the cost being met by DCMS? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><p><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Kind Regards</font></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Alan</font></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"> </font></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3">Alan Coote</font></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"> </font></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><a href="http://www.letstalkbusinessonline.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#6b006d">Hear
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However I believe that the proposal would reduce Ofcom's workload and significantly increase the workload on individual stations.<br><br></div>The Key Commitments template is simplified and reduces much of the community radio reporting to a box ticking exercise around some quantitative statements about the number of original hours and the number of hours of locally-produced content broadcast.<br><br></div>A greater onus is going to be placed on stations to record their social gain outputs - from Section 3.13:<br><br><div>Under our proposed new approach to Key Commitments, each station would need to take greater responsibility for planning its own social gain, participation and accountability activities. <br></div><br></div>I think the proposed new form of reporting is going to make it difficult for stations to know the level of detail they would need to go into to record their activities and some stations will end up over-documenting their activities and some might possibly under-record. There is an opportunity here for the CMA in conjunction with Ofcom to disseminate best practice and develop some training and education around Key Commitments reporting.<br><br></div>Furthermore the proposed new Key Commitments template places a lot of emphasis on quantitative data - and, unfortunately, replacing qualitative outcomes with quantitative information is not going to be the best method of measuring social gain objectives. In fact the Key Commitments template reduces explicit reporting on social gain to a mere three check boxes:<br><ul><li>the facilitation of discussion and the expression of opinion,</li><li>the provision (whether by means of programmes included in the service or otherwise) of education or training to individuals not employed by the person providing the service, and</li><li>the better understanding of the particular community and the strengthening of links within it.</li></ul><div><div><div><div><div><div>And stations will have to take responsibility for locally and privately recording their delivery of social inclusion, promotion of employment, cultural and linguistic diversity, and so on.<br><br></div><div>Delivery of social gain is what makes community radio unique and any steps to reduce the emphasis on such an important characteristic of community radio would be most unwelcome.<br><br></div><div>Best regards<br><br></div><div>Bill<br>-- <br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span><div><div><div><div><div>Operations Manager<br></div>Community Media Association<br></div><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">http://www.commedia.org.uk</a><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/community_media" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/community_media</a><br></div><div><a href="https://facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" target="_blank">https://facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br><br></div><div></div>Canstream Internet Radio<br></div><a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.canstream.co.uk</a><br></div><a href="https://twitter.com/canstream" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/canstream</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div>On 15 October 2015 at 20:07, Associated Broadcast Consultants <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@a-bc.co.uk" target="_blank">info@a-bc.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>This is massively key for the sector, but I don't see much conversation/energy on this forum about it. <br><br></div><div>I wonder why?<br></div><br></div>Glyn<br>-- <br>Glyn Roylance - Principal Consultant
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