<html>
<head>
<style><!--
.hmmessage P
{
margin:0px;
padding:0px
}
body.hmmessage
{
font-size: 12pt;
font-family:Calibri
}
--></style></head>
<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I know it's "The Rules", but what a state of affairs when people can be penalised for doing too well.<br>I do our VAT and Tax - it surely can't be that hard to compose official returns to comply with the parameters?<br><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;widows:1;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;widows:1;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/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);"><img alt="" src="https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/2SkDsnIzSZgRbNnNKBSiwxiFhFQWRGV55mTjVL23fulnJpstZmYxeKrrYefY4qxiSgkMrAETld64XINLXCsujE_zI5gAsQyWeCWvHixcrNYtar3Sij4YlVBgN2NSQ-n2DsgZvrnpWZlfwCQ=s0-d-e1-ft#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;widows:1;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;widows:1;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;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;"><i><font size="3">6 Horn Street, Compton, NEWBURY, RG20 6QS</font></i></div></div><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: tlr@gairloch.co.uk<br>To: cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk<br>Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:11:50 +0000<br>Subject: Re: [cma-l] 4ZZZ & born to fail<br><br>
<style><!--
--></style>
<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">I guess some community stations are more viable
than others... Nevis was no surprise, as it was a successful commercial licence
holder that converted to a community licence a couple of years back, and I love
the though that another station blamed and "oversight due to internal issues
that have now been sorted" for its high income. We could do with some of those
issues!</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma"></font> </div>
<div><font color="#363636" size="2" face="Tahoma"><strong>Ofcom has found three
community radio stations in breach of their licences for bringing in too much
money.</strong></font></div>
<div><font color="#363636" face="Tahoma"><a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/enforcement/broadcast-bulletins/obb294/issue_294.pdf" target="_blank"><font size="2">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/enforcement/broadcast-bulletins/obb294/issue_294.pdf</font></a><font color="#000000" size="2"> (pp32-34)</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma"></font> </div><strong><font color="#363636" face="Tahoma">
<ul>
<li>
<div style="WIDOWS:1;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;BACKGROUND-COLOR:rgb(255,255,255);TEXT-INDENT:0px;MARGIN:0px 0px 10px;FONT:14px/22px Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;WHITE-SPACE:normal;LETTER-SPACING:normal;COLOR:rgb(54,54,54);WORD-SPACING:0px;"><font size="2">Nevis Community Radio reported in 2014, 98% of its income was
derived from on-air advertising and sponsorship. But after questions by Ofcom,
the station re-submitted its Financial Report saying it
had under-estimated the amount of ‘in kind’ income from volunteers in its
report.</font></div></li>
<li>
<div style="WIDOWS:1;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;BACKGROUND-COLOR:rgb(255,255,255);TEXT-INDENT:0px;MARGIN:0px 0px 10px;FONT:14px/22px Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;WHITE-SPACE:normal;LETTER-SPACING:normal;COLOR:rgb(54,54,54);WORD-SPACING:0px;"><font size="2">Peace Full Media in Manchester said its 65% commercial income was
as a result of an oversight “caused by internal issues which have now been
sorted."</font></div></li>
<li>
<div style="WIDOWS:1;TEXT-TRANSFORM:none;BACKGROUND-COLOR:rgb(255,255,255);TEXT-INDENT:0px;MARGIN:0px 0px 10px;FONT:14px/22px Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;WHITE-SPACE:normal;LETTER-SPACING:normal;COLOR:rgb(54,54,54);WORD-SPACING:0px;"><font size="2">Bishop FM in Bishop Auckland reported that 60% was commercial due to a
misallocation of commercial production revenues between years and revised it
to 54% – which was still in breach.</font></div></li></ul></font></strong>
<div><strong><font color="#363636" face="Tahoma"></font></strong> </div>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#000000 2px solid;PADDING-LEFT:5px;PADDING-RIGHT:0px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-RIGHT:0px;">
<div style="FONT:10pt arial;">----- Original Message ----- </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial;BACKGROUND:#e4e4e4;"><b>From:</b>
<a title="ravensound@pilgrimsound.co.uk" href="mailto:ravensound@pilgrimsound.co.uk">Tony Bailey</a> </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial;"><b>To:</b> <a title="transplanfm@hotmail.com" href="mailto:transplanfm@hotmail.com">Ian Hickling</a> </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial;"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk">The Community Media Association
Discussion List</a> </div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial;"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 10, 2015 8:22
AM</div>
<div style="FONT:10pt arial;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cma-l] 4ZZZ & born to
fail</div>
<div><br></div>
<div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">Ian, you are clearly an optimist to be working for
community radio - long may you succeed. Perhaps we should rename this
thread "regulated to fail" instead as the issue is more about the environment
in which CR has to exist than a defect at birth.
<br>/listinfo/cma-l</div></blockquote>
<br>_______________________________________________
Reply - cma-l@commedia.org.uk
The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the Community Media Association - http://www.commedia.org.uk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/community_media
http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation
Canstream Internet Radio & Video: http://www.canstream.co.uk/
_______________________________________________
Mailing list guidelines: http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/
_______________________________________________
To unsubscribe or manage your CMA-L mailing list subscription please visit:
http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l</div> </div></body>
</html>