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</head><body><p>For those working to beat the tight deadline on the Invitation to tender, note that the BBC has just extended it by 3 days:</p><p><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Dear bidders - the BBC has had a number of representations from organisations requesting a short deadline extension. In light of this, the application deadline will be extended to midnight on Monday 29 May 2017.</span><br><span style="font-family: "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Many thanks, Ede"</span></p><p>So you have the weekend to finalize things!</p><p>Alex</p><blockquote type="cite">On 25 May 2017 at 13:17 "Alex Gray, Two Lochs Radio" <tlr@gairloch.co.uk> wrote:<br><br><div class="ox-87b3e6046e-WordSection1"><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">Hi</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">Thanks, that confirms what I said, as per my original posting. I saw no reference by the BBC to a prohibition on CR stations taking part, and don’t know where Canalside got that from.</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">The BBC can’t speak for Ofcom, of course, whose agreement is usually needed for ‘out of area’ production.</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">Alex</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><div><div style="border: none; border-top: solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt; padding: 3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">From:</span></strong><span 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] <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Eden FM Radio<br><strong>Sent:</strong> 25 May 2017 12:23<br><strong>To:</strong> The Community Media Association Discussion List <cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk><br><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [cma-l] Local News Partnership</span></p></div></div><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Hi Alex<br><br>There is no restriction on community radio using the audio from this project on their website, with the addition of locally written (by you) words and pictures. That providing certain conditions and standards are met by the community station.<br><br>The central point, is that the audio from this project cannot be broadcast by the station.</span></p></div><div><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Also, this project does not affect any arrangements in place between BBC local and community statoons who have entered in to any sharing arrangement, as set up by Commedia.<br><br>The above is a precise of an email we received from the BBC following some questions on the project.<br><br>-Nigel-</span></p></div><div><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><br>Eden FM Radio Ltd<br>Office : 01768 899 101<br>Studio: 01768 899 107<br>Web: <a href="http://www.edenfm.co.uk">www.edenfm.co.uk</a><br>Twitter: @EdenFmRadio<br>Facebook : @edenfmonline<br>Mostyn Hall, Friargate, Penrith CA11 7XP</p></div><blockquote><div><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">----- Original Message ----- </span></p></div><div><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal" style="background: #E4E4E4;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> <a href="mailto:tlr@gairloch.co.uk">Alex Gray, Two Lochs Radio</a> </span></p></div><div><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">To:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> <a href="mailto:office@thethread.org.uk">office@thethread.org.uk</a> ; <a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk">'The Community Media Association Discussion List'</a> </span></p></div><div><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Sent:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> Tuesday, May 23, 2017 4:56 PM</span></p></div><div><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Subject:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"> Re: [cma-l] Local News Partnership</span></p></div><div><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">I put our application in at the weekend. While doing it, I didn’t see any restriction against Community Radio stations, indeed I didn’t see Community Radio referred to at all, only “local media”, and “local news organisations”. But as I said, I think stations would need Ofcom consent to use the BBC content.</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">The notes say:</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">“The partnership includes:</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #333333; background: white;">…A<span class="ox-87b3e6046e-apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Shared Data Unit</span></strong> that will share data journalism with news organisations across the media industry and will be staffed by reporters from local news providers and the BBC.”</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">“</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #333333; background: white;">Any local news provider wanting to receive content from the Shared Data Unit, the local Democracy Reporter or the News Hub must meet the journalistic standards laid out in Section 1 of the Eligibility Criteria. <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/partnerships/bbclocalnewspartnerships_guidancenotesv2.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;">Guidance notes </span></a>for applications are available <a href="http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/partnerships/bbclocalnewspartnerships_guidancenotesv2.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;">here</span></a>. Apply online via the <a href="https://bbc.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html"><span style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;">BBC Procurement website</span></a>.</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">”</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span class="ox-87b3e6046e-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #333333; background: white;"> </span></span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">It defines local news organisations as:</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span class="ox-87b3e6046e-apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #333333; background: white;"> </span></span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">…those individuals, companies or groups </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt;">       </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">whose intended audience is typically located in a specific geographical area which is smaller than a single Nation of the UK (ie smaller than Scotland)</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt;">       </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">who generate and distribute their own news content </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span class="ox-87b3e6046e-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Symbol; color: #333333;">·</span></span><span class="ox-87b3e6046e-apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #333333;">       </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">whose journalistic output covers a broad range of topical subjects, but in particular local government and democratic institutions News providers whose target audience is a community of interest (e.g. supporters of a sports team) or whose editorial is local but focussed on a community of interest</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">(NB BBC’s mis-spelling of ‘focused’!) </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">I guess not all community stations generate their own news, so that might be a hurdle, as might this be:</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">Applicants are also required to certify that they meet these minimum standards:</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Symbol; color: #465053;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #465053;">       </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #465053;">Does your local news organisation(s) provide a consistent level of contemporaneous coverage of all aspects of public institutions, organisations and civic life, including councils and public bodies? </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Symbol; color: #1f497d;">·</span><span style="font-size: 7.0pt; color: #1f497d;">       </span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #465053;">Does your local news organisation(s) meet and maintain high journalistic standards?</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">Alex</span></p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><div><div style="border: none; border-top: solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt; padding: 3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">From:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;"> <a href="mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk">cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk">mailto:cma-l-bounces@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>] <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>Canalside's Thread events guide for NE Cheshire<br><strong>Sent:</strong> 22 May 2017 20:48<br><strong>To:</strong> 'The Community Media Association Discussion List' <<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>><br><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [cma-l] Local News Partnership</span></p></div></div><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"> </p><p class="ox-87b3e6046e-MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; color: black;">From what I understood from the outset was there was a local News hub in various areas around the Country. Media be them Commercial / Community  whatever could access it           ie:- passworded    like traffic reports or news services which are paid for ……. As I saw it someone somewhere shut the door on us accessing before Chrimbo  (October / November I seem to recall. 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