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<span data-offset-key="1u1f5-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">It's just struck me how Ofcom and indeed the Government have got it just a bit wrong with Community Radio.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bod5g-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Look at any CR station.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="smfm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">What do you see?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="644vq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">An Area?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3vsct-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">A Community?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6d7cq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">An Organisation?</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2v7dn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">No</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d9tsl-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">You see one person - one motivated dedicated let's-just-get-it-done person.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ep519-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Ed Vaizey during his time as Minister is on record as saying that Government policy is that every community that wants its own radio station should have one.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="9j638-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Excellent.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="e2v6p-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">But communities don't act as one and it's impossible to get a decision or useful action out of a community without having a focal point.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="80cr0-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The root cause is the "team" philosophy.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6h8ae-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Teams don't make decisions.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="enbjn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">As we've said before - in the most efficient organisations there is no "f" in team.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8vkr4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Ofcom is wasting its own and our time in putting the invitation to submit a CR Application out to areas under this hypothetical "fairness" principle.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5ascu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">When all these additional Applications are in, let's look at how many *viable* ones we have - in addition to those from EOIs</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="c4ji4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">I suspect very very few.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="53qg-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Q E D - as Pythagoras is reputed to have exclaimed</span></div>
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