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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> Canalside Community Radio Ltd [mailto:office@canalsideradio.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> 12 June 2017 16:40<br><b>To:</b> 'Canalside's The Thread' <office@thethread.org.uk><br><b>Subject:</b> answers<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>To answer the e-mails I have received :-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>The point I was making re:- provisos, stipulations etc was if this is true to what it is meant to be, surely the qualification ought to be the areas and Stations that ‘’’don’t’’’ have a proper news desk as opposed to the ones that already do. Ie:- the ones that owing to circumsrtances may be areas that are underserved.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>Sky / IRN and News Hub offer services (which we pay for) providing National News. We merely take it, and then relay it. I can’t see how it can go wrong at our end ? I know News Hub and Sky have the professionals in place to deliver the goods.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>My understanding was (and common sense tells us) that Journalists be strategically placed around the Country to deliver (for Radio) as we are talking here the BBC ie:- the British BROADCASTING Company so the key word being ‘’’Broadcast’’’ you would have thought that the Radio side of it would come first.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>Perhaps I had fallen asleep whilst this announcement was being made or I have done my classic and ‘’’missed something?’’’ personally, I don’t think I have.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>I ask the question again ----- Why has £8 Million pounds of tax payers money been invested in ‘this’ project ? I’m not knocking it, I am actually supporting it, providing everyone is included. You don’t include people by having applications with stipulations that exclude 90% before you’ve even got out of the starting blocks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>I can only speak for us here at Canalside. We have never had a News desk or a Professional News reporter / Journalist on local News ….. we have a higgledy piggledy botched together News system, which believe it or not serves a purpose and we get the news out, be it not time specific nor consistent. It is however Local News. In the BBC’s eyes, it possibly isn’t adequate. In fact I know it isn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>A Journalist based at BBC Manchester covering the East Cheshire, South Manchester area would be good. As per my e-mail to Alex and Michael I would have thought the system would be the Beeb offering up the Journalists for the areas in need (the underserved) as opposed to us ‘applying’ as I say, I am unsure what I am applying for? considering it has already been stated that we are :<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>Not able to Broadcast the News<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>Can’t access it if we are turned down in the application<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>And without a News desk the probability of the turn down is highly likely.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>Do we know how many have applied ? at the moment we appear to be going really well 2 out 2 success rate, but for what ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'>News hub – distribution of BBC audio and video for online use only (the restriction to online is to mitigate impact on plurality and commercial operations) <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'>Local democracy reporting service – the content can be used anywhere locally (subject to T&Cs)<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#1F497D;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'>The Shared Data Unit – data driven content which can also be used anywhere locally (subject to T&Cs)<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>The rules appear to have been based yet again around ‘’’commercial operations’’’ a bit like the restrictions. The majority of us do not care about commercial operations as we applied for a Community Licence ….. tails are wagging Dogs again and my suggestion on Number One would be if the Commercials wish to access / broadcast it, then fine, leave it to internet only …. Mitigating on plurality and commercial operation does not apply to us so why can’t we broadcast it ? or as I originally understood re-broadcast it from the Journalist for our area ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>I did reply to the BBC regarding this, but clearly the question was too difficult so they have chosen not to answer it. Personally I think because they have been stumped out. Sadly though what happens to us is not Cricket, I only wish it was.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>Of course what will now happen is the gulf between the haves and have nots will grow so those who have a slightly substandard news service in my opinion may aswell abandon news completely and perhaps run with the audience who prefer music and chat. Key commitments need to be changed again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>We are being pushed down a road that we don’t particularly want to go down, but have Hobson Choice --- whilst at the same time the ‘’’APPARENT’’’ reason for having this £8 Million project is to make it more accessible with a wider reach …………. Clearly this isn’t the case hence why at the moment it looks dodgy to me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>I would be very grateful (as I believe many others would) if one of our team could just for once stick their head up above the parapet and tell us what have we signed up for, what can they access, and how will it have changed the service they already provide ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:black'>A Professional reporter / newscaster reading 4 bulletins a day (local news) would be just what the Doctor ordered ….. 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