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<p>You would be able to afford it Nick - even as a standalone station eventually - but do you want to and do you need to?</p>
<p>Matt Hancock's statement is a little vague - because "station" could include a teenager on line from his bedroom if there's no other clarification.<br>
It will certainly be interesting to see who attends - and how many.<br>
Do you have figures Bill?</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk <cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk> on behalf of Canalside's The Thread <office@thethread.org.uk><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 13 March 2017 09:59<br>
<b>To:</b> 'The Community Media Association Discussion List'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cma-l] SSDAB & Community Radio: Past, Present, Future. University of Bedfordshire, Luton - Saturday 25th March, 11am to 4pm</font>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:black">Just a quick question here ….. is there something wrong with this event ?? I have now received about 15 reminders and here we are just over a week away and another reminder.
It might be genuine, but I’m just interested in the amount of reminders ?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:black">Are the numbers down ?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif; color:black">I won’t be attending for a number of reasons, one of them being that once all this is set up (if) we wouldn’t be able to afford it anyway …. The otherside of the argument
I suppose is like in a Restaurant ‘’you can have a look at the menu even though you’re not eating’’ as for Mr Hancocks statement ….. I think it speaks volumes, unless of course it is a mis-quote and he means 200 Community Stations
?? any ideas ?</span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk [mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk]
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<b>Sent:</b> 10 March 2017 19:51<br>
<b>To:</b> cma-l@commedia.org.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [cma-l] SSDAB & Community Radio: Past, Present, Future. University of Bedfordshire, Luton - Saturday 25th March, 11am to 4pm</span></p>
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