<html><head></head><body>I fully support your proposal Paul.<br>
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First task is to make this the policy for the CMA so that it is the position of the sector - Bill can you explain what the process is to discuss this at Council and what the process is?<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Murray<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 February 2016 08:10:49 GMT+00:00, Paul Golder <paul@pvg.co.uk> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>> Put bluntly, PPL doesn’t owe your station a living. Does the electricity company give you free electricity just because you are non-profit, or the phone company, or… of course not, which is why it costs £30-50k to run the smallest of full-time stations.<br /><br />No one owes us a living, but whereas I doubt the electricity company are getting any benefit from us using their product, PPL's members probably see us as a bit more useful.<br /><br />PRS and PPL are always talking about what good they do for the music community ... perhaps they can be persuaded to give up that 0.02% of their income by supporting a tier of radio that gives airplay to its unsigned members looking to get a step up.<br /><br /></div>Keeping to the point .. we've got a rare opportunity to renegotiate these contracts in our favour, so let's ask for free and see where we meet in the middle.<br /><br /></div>Paul<br /></div>Phoenix FM<br /><div><div><div><br
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