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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Martin et al<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>You might find that virtually all of my
observations go unanswered. There’s a reason why they go unanswered and
it’s because ‘they’re as you say’ [[</span></font><font
color=black><span style='color:black'>are very on the point]]</span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> it’s actually the reason why debates never take
place with some of the Ministers over the years .they know it’s all
wrong, you know it’s all wrong, I know it’s all wrong, the
commercials boys even know it’s all wrong, everyone knows it’s all
wrong, but it has gone on and on for over 10 years absolutely unbelievable
?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I just voice what I know 90% of the folk
are thinking, I’ve gone past the point of caring now.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>This all should have been tackled head on
if people aren’t prepared to see sense. Sadly, a little Station like ours
in the middle of the <st1:place w:st="on">NE Cheshire</st1:place> sticks can’t
take these folk on by ourselves, it has to be a concerted effort by everyone.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>We should have been helped not hindered.
Those who think we haven’t been hindered, then we are poles apart in our
opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I thoroughly enjoy what I do (you might
think are you sure?) but it has been spoilt slightly by all the nonsense,
debates and wasted energy on fiascos. Those fiascos of course none of our
making.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I go back to my original statement 10
years ago ….. the only regulation should be on what we spend our money
on ‘’’the spend & what we do with the money’’’
everything else is complete gobbledy gook<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>We’ve got 50% rules that ought not apply now ---- there are
rules in place anyway to prevent Businesses indirectly controlling the Traffic<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>We’ve had the wrong folk shouting the odds (commercial
radio has NOTHING to do with what we are doing) they need to keep their
conks out of it<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Politicians have been complete whimps <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>No restrictions on advertising revenues as it is the spend that
needs regulating. Not how we get it £££ but what we do with it. As long as it
isn’t going into Iindividuals swiss Bank accounts and is being
re-invested in the project, where’s the problem ?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>We already have restrictions ! Rookies on-air on
a regular basis ………. They learn the ropes with us, so some
Programmes aren’t exactly trail blazing. I am not being critical as many
of ours soon get up to speed and deliver the goods. We teach them well (I
think?) but in the interim periods it can be a bit warts’ n’
all ………..but that’s the charm. This is a restriction in
itself. How do you compete with the big Commercials and the BBC without the
tools ….we don’t ….certainly not on a big scale. Secondly, I
said years ago that the Grant front was a dream. It hasn’t come to
fruition and lots of energy and time has been wasted applying for things that
don’t exist. You can’t get Grants for ‘doing Radio’ [read
my lips] I said this in <st1:place w:st="on">Leicester</st1:place> 6 years
ago ….. grants were running out even then. Why wasn’t anything done
?? we have to run around inventing projects, then getting
money for the project that just pays for the project but the actual (THING) we
need the money for remains unfunded. It’s pathetic !<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>6)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>We are restricted with our transmitters …….. we only
have a small pool of businesses who we can go for because the others are
outside our area. We have lost lots because they say they can’t hear us ….and
some of them are only 3-4 miles outside the 5km ………..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>7)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>The age old argument about restrictions …..it is all
relative those who are in areas under 150,000 the commercials
claim it is difficult ---well surely, if it is difficult for them then it is
difficult for Community Radio as well ………..end result = THE
SAME<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>8)<font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Radio Fund ……… not big enough …. Each Station
should receive about ten grand (£10,000) from this every year so that at least
if everything was voluntary, they could stay afloat and pay their way and
survive. Why do we have a system where in our own fund we are bidding against
each other ?! which Numpty thought that one up ? it’s just another
distraction away from what we are meant to be doing. More bureaucracy and
disappointment for us, more bureaucracy for Ofcom AND we will never get the
fund higher if some are waltzing off with £30,000 grand and others get £6000 …………
we have allowed ‘’’them’’’ whoever ‘’’they’’’
may be to do the oldest trick in the book ‘divide and conquer’
you will never get anywhere operating like this. People won’t stand
up and be counted if they’re getting £30,000 quid, they’ll lie low ……..the
ones that get nowt’ are voices in the wilderness. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>£10,000 for every Station every year I
say. No grants, no applications, just one Lady/Chappy in the office writing out
the Gregory Peck on January 1st<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I SAY IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN …….the
whole Politics of all of this is a complete Horlicks / a Shambles / a Debacle<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>My final sweeping statement. I don’t
care if people agree or disagree, because I know the time will come when
everything that has been pointed out will have to be dealt with --- that time
will come. My argument is, surely it would have been better to have done it
sooner rather than later. It would at least have prevented me from slowly going
from Mr Come-Day-go-Day to Mr Frustrated over a period of 10 years<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Please do keep us all posted on the DAB
front and costs and pros and cons, I’m sure everyone is looking at it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>All the best for Christmas
everyone I’ve asked Santa for a ‘’wake-up-and-smell-the
Coffee Machine’’ I’ve ordered one each for the Team at
the DCMS. Santa always struggles though getting down the Chimney .. they are
quite long in those Ivory Towers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>All written with a cheeky grin and tongue
in cheek …… I’m not a bad lad really<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Nick<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk
[mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Martin Steers<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 10 December 2015 22:27<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">The
Community Media Association Discussion List</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [cma-l] Ofcom pushing
ahead with small-scale DAB</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi Nick,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>A lot of your questions are very on point and are unanswered, thats
what in part the trial is about.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>But I for one am interested in the outcome, and seeing that an
accessible / "low cost" opportunity for community radio to engage
with DAB is available.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Martin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On 10 December 2015 at 13:42, Canalside's The Thread <<a
href="mailto:office@thethread.org.uk" target="_blank">office@thethread.org.uk</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>What is the definition of ‘low cost’
?? low cost to a Station that sits within the restrictions is
different to low cost to others --------- likewise, what is the definition of
‘area’ ?? 1 Mile, 2 Miles, 3 Miles ?
……….the moment you start getting near to 4 or 5 or 6
etc you can almost hear the Commercial Radio Board Members chucking
their Toys out of the Pram as we speak.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Is the DAB malarkey going through the system in a fair and proper
manner or are the commercial boys going to be shouting the odds and meddling
with it again? …….. some may think this is trivial or Boat rocking,
I actually don’t think it is …..we don’t want another
horlicks onto of the one we already have.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Any ideas please ?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Let’s have a game of ‘give us a clue’</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Ian Hickling<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [cma-l] Ofcom pushing
ahead with small-scale DAB</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Only to
be expected - since the initiative was from Ofcom after a lot of pressure - but
I think we should press for a committed timescale.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>From: <a
href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a><br>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 10:49:55 +0000<br>
To: <a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a><br>
Subject: [cma-l] Ofcom pushing ahead with small-scale DAB</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Ofcom
has said it's going to be working with the Government next year to develop a
potential solution for smaller and community stations to get on DAB digital
radio.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>As part
of Ofcom's newly-published plans for the 2016/17 financial year, it has
confirmed that it is going to continue its work on 'small scale DAB', a
low-cost, simplified approach to enabling stations to broadcast across a small
area on DAB.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Currently,
Ofcom and multiplex operators are piloting the technology behind small scale
DAB in a nine-month trial in 10 locations, which is due to expire in the early
summer. Ofcom wants to expand small scale DAB services to more areas and has
been working on identifying suitable frequencies and setting up the regulatory
framework for smaller operators if small scale DAB was to enter regular,
full-time service across the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'> </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>The
current roll-out of local, mostly county-wide DAB multiplexes will continue to
be supported into the next financial year, according to the proposed Ofcom
annual plan.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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also announced that it will be supporting the Government for a potential new
statutory framework for radio regulation next year, following the conclusion of
its own review of regulation in February.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=3 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Calibri'>Source: <a
href="http://www.a516digital.com/2015/12/ofcom-pushing-ahead-with-small-scale.html"
target="_blank">http://www.a516digital.com/2015/12/ofcom-pushing-ahead-with-small-scale.html</a></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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