<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Speak for yourself!<br><br></div>(That says it all really!) <br><br></div>Neil Munday<br></div>Operations Director <br>Susy Radio 103.4<br><br></div>A community radio station with a board who work our socks off!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 May 2017 at 08:22, Ian Hickling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:transplanfm@hotmail.com" target="_blank">transplanfm@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span 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 style="font-family:inherit">Look at any CR station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">What do you see?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">An Area?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">A Community?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">An Organisation?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">No</span></div>
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<span 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 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 style="font-family:inherit">Excellent.</span></div>
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<span 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 style="font-family:inherit">The root cause is the "team" philosophy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">Teams don't make decisions.</span></div>
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<span 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 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 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 style="font-family:inherit">I suspect very very few.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:inherit">Q E D - as Pythagoras is reputed to have exclaimed</span></div>
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