<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I assume RAJAR works on the same principle of any other sampling means of gathering data.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One of the primary purposes is for an advertiser to determine which station to spend money on based on their need to reach a specific audience.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So while, the absolute accuracy may be suspect, but if the sample size is statistically representative of the population, then the relative comparison between the various stations will be accurate enough for that primary purpose. To that extent, they don’t get "duped".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, for example to decide between Heart and Kiss, it is a good benchmark.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For small stations such as community radios, getting a statistically representative sample will be cost prohibitive. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If an advertiser wants to go for small stations, they are going to depend on other things.<br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">At the end of the day, an advertiser needs to measure the impact of their spend. RAJAR is not going to help with that and it often needs additional expensive mechanisms such as surveys for the advertisers to do that measure. The reason Digital and mobile advertising is seeing rapid growth is precisely that measurement capability.</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">Didn’t mean to do this, but it actually leads me an opportunity to do a little sales spin here.</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">We believe Radio can offer better measurement and one of the mechanisms we are trying out can be seen here - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6zdcQ_w3IQ" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6zdcQ_w3IQ</a></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">The <a href="http://www.exaget.com/exaget-radio-apps/reach-download-page/" class="">REACH Radio App</a> (UK Community Radio App created with CMA) and the various other Apps that we have delivered on behalf of the various community radio already have that capability. And we are working on the first of the cases that will go live with that - so stay tuned.</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">Shankar</div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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</span></span></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Oct 2015, at 16:20, Eryl Price-Davies <<a href="mailto:eryl.pricedavies@gmail.com" class="">eryl.pricedavies@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Whilst I agree that RAJAR has many flaws, it is the one that advertisers (and others) rely on - whether they're duped or not.<div class="">Over the years I've met 3 people who've taken part...and all felt that the methodology was suspect. The main issue seems to be that most people seriously over-estimate the amount of listening that they do...which may or may not be a problem?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eryl </div></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Ian Hickling<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:transplanfm@hotmail.com" target="_blank" class="">transplanfm@hotmail.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Oh no!<br class="">RAJAR might be the only commercial survey available, but it's hugely expensive and has a worthlessly low sample size.<br class="">Advertisers are duped into believing it because there simply isn't anything else.<div class="">Persuade me I'm wrong.<br class="">I've never yet in 15 years in this Industry sector ever met anyone who has participated.<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><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);" class=""><font size="3" class=""><b class="">Ian Hickling</b><br class=""></font></div><font size="3" 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;" class=""><font style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Partner</font></font><br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.transplanuk.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><img alt="" src="http://www.transplanuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/transplan_UK_weblogo_190x60.png" class=""></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;" class=""><i class=""><font size="3" class="">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;" class=""><i class=""><font size="3" class="">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;" class=""><i class=""><font size="3" class="">6 Horn Street, Compton, NEWBURY, RG20 6QS</font></i></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><hr class="">Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:10:31 +0100<br class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:alan.coote@5digital.co.uk" target="_blank" class="">alan.coote@5digital.co.uk</a><div class=""><div class="h5"><br class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank" class="">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a><br class="">Subject: Re: [cma-l] Review of the approach to community radio Key Commitments<br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class="">Bill,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><p class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="3" class="">Kind Regards</font></span></p><p class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="3" class="">Alan</font></span></p><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="3" class=""> </font></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="3" class="">Alan Coote</font></span></p><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="3" class=""> </font></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="3" class=""><a href="http://www.letstalkbusinessonline.com/" target="_blank" class=""><span style="color: rgb(107, 0, 109);" class="">Hear Alan Every Week on Let’s Talk Business The UK’s Premier Radio Programme For Current and Future Entrepreneurs - Now Broadcast To Over 7 Million People </span></a> </font></span></p><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="3" class=""> </font></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="3" class="">Email - <a href="mailto:alan.coote@5digital.co.uk" target="_blank" class=""><span style="color: rgb(107, 0, 109);" class="">alan.coote@5digital.co.uk</span></a></font></span></p><p class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="3" class="">Phone - 0800 949 6655</font></span></p><p class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="3" class="">Mobile - 07801 518858</font></span></p><p class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="3" class="">Twitter - <span style="color: rgb(107, 0, 109);" class=""><a href="http://www.twitter.com/TheAlanCoote" target="_blank" class="">@TheAlanCoote</a></span></font></span><span style="font-size: inherit;" class=""> </span></p><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="3" class="">Twitter - <a href="http://www.twitter.com/TheAlanCoote" target="_blank" class=""><span style="color: rgb(107, 0, 109);" class="">@LTBShow</span></a></font></span></p><p class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font size="3" class="">Web - <span style="color: rgb(107, 0, 109);" class=""><a href="http://www.5digital.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.LetsTalkBusinessOnline.com</a></span></font></span></p></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><span class=""><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223);" class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><<a href="mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank" class="">cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>> on behalf of "<a href="mailto:bill.best@commedia.org.uk" target="_blank" class="">bill.best@commedia.org.uk</a>"<br class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Reply-To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>"<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank" class="">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>"<br class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Tuesday, 20 October 2015 12:39<br class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>"<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank" class="">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>"<br class=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Re: [cma-l] Review of the approach to community radio Key Commitments<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hi<br class=""><br class=""></div>Having read through Ofcom's proposal several times, certainly any move to reduce the administrative burden of Key Commitments reporting for community radio stations would be welcome. However I believe that the proposal would reduce Ofcom's workload and significantly increase the workload on individual stations.<br class=""><br class=""></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 class=""><br class=""></div>A greater onus is going to be placed on stations to record their social gain outputs - from Section 3.13:<br class=""><br class=""><div class="">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.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div><br class=""></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 class=""><br class=""></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 class=""><ul class=""><li class="">the facilitation of discussion and the expression of opinion,</li><li class="">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 class="">the better understanding of the particular community and the strengthening of links within it.</li></ul><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bill<br class="">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Operations Manager<br class=""></div>Community Media Association<br class=""></div><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.commedia.org.uk</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://twitter.com/community_media" target="_blank" class="">https://twitter.com/community_media</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" target="_blank" class="">https://facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div>Canstream Internet Radio<br class=""></div><a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.canstream.co.uk</a><br class=""></div><a href="https://twitter.com/canstream" target="_blank" class="">https://twitter.com/canstream</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="">On 15 October 2015 at 20:07, Associated Broadcast Consultants<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:info@a-bc.co.uk" target="_blank" class="">info@a-bc.co.uk</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""><blockquote style="border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">This is massively key for the sector, but I don't see much conversation/energy on this forum about it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wonder why?<br class=""></div><br class=""></div>Glyn<br class="">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Glyn Roylance - Principal Consultant<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><div class=""><div class=""><a href="http://www.a-bc.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="">Associated Broadcast Consultants</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">On 15 October 2015 at 17:34, CMA-L<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk" target="_blank" class="">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br class=""></div></div><blockquote style="border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Community radio services broadcasting on FM or AM provide social gain and other community benefits on a not-for-profit basis.<br class=""><br class="">Each station is required to provide the service described in its licence, which is based on the proposals it made during the application process for the licence.<br class=""><br class="">These service descriptions recorded in community radio licences are called ‘Key Commitments’.<br class=""><br class="">This Ofcom consultation seeks views on a proposal to streamline and simplify the Key Commitments.<br class=""><br class="">This will free up community radio stations, enabling them to focus on serving their target communities, adapt better to the changing needs of those communities, and deliver social gain.<br class=""><br class="">Ofcom invites written comments on the questions raised in this consultation, to be submitted by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">5pm on 21 October 2015</b>. Ofcom strongly prefers to receive responses in electronic format and their web form will allow you to indicate your data protection preferences and send your views to the team responsible for this consultation.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/key-commitments/" target="_blank" class="">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/key-commitments/</a><br class=""><br class="">\\<br class=""><br class="">Community Media Association<br class="">--<br class=""><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.commedia.org.uk/</a><br class=""><a href="http://twitter.com/community_media" target="_blank" class="">http://twitter.com/community_media</a><br class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" target="_blank" class="">https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br class=""><br class="">Canstream Internet Radio & Video<br class=""><a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk/" 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