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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='color:black'>Dear All<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I say this with a smile and little chuckle because you really couldn’t write the script. I have made many an observation over the Years and always willing to back them up with facts if needs be. Sadly you do have to do that, as our Industry / Sector (it has been proved) has a rather large share of folk who suffer ‘’’selective memory loss’’’ I just feel obliged to play Sandie Shaw ‘’there’s always something there to remind me/us’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I do like to read and learn from the experts …. Those who blog and/or podcast – write and not forgetting our regular updates from our Radio friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Is it just me or do we have a number of stories running that each time a new release comes out there’s a complete contradiction ?? I’m not complaining, I find it quite amusing, but obviously a bit baffling as well It’s not just one or two we seem to have a conveyor belt full of em now and it really has got to the point now where half-wits and numptys like me simply do not know what to believe anymore ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Now there is some sensible conversation here team, because if we look hard at headlines like ‘Dab is the future’ ‘followed by in the next edition’ no future for DAB and its Radio sets as Olga – Alexia - Hilda whatever her name is ?? is now sending us down another direction then who do we believe ? what do we believe ?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>As some Radio Stations gear up for another kicking from Commercial Radio or PRS / PPL / DCMS – Councils etc and line up for Licence extensions or moving over to / or not moving over to DAB it doesn’t exactly fill you with the joys of spring when you read experts now writing headlines like RADIO IS DEAD ! </span><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black'>😊</span><span style='color:black'> I think I know what they mean though dead in the original form that we knew it, so basically WE now have to do a tweak or two and a fettle or three<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Where does Community Radio sit in all of this ? here’s where for once I move quickly from half-wit to expert I like to think this is good advice all that we have left out of this 15 Year journey is this :-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><ol style='margin-top:0cm' start=1 type=1><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>What we do off-air is important ---- certainly opportunities, training, accessibility a bit of regular Central Government / Local Government Funding for this would be nice<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Social Media needs to getting a good 3 points on the coupon with at least a ‘’’draw’’’ with so called ‘rivals’ what is a rival ?? it’’s not necessarily another Radio Station, it is merely someone / something / some establishment that is there offering somewhere else to spend their lolly £££ but not with you / us<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>On-Air I believe this has now gone full-circle and the development of our people is as much about personality and delivery from an individual, as it is about skill-set / training / gadgets etc<o:p></o:p></li></ol><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>In other-words, people are important and you live or die by those people …… both on-air and off-air I think the Day Ethel / Hilda / Olga / Alexia delivers you requests on a plate but with a ‘’’personality’’’ then yes RADIO IS DEAD <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Community Radio I have discovered is full of personalities, wonderful people, interesting people ……… even nutballs like me sit somewhere in there it / we all make up the mix, and it is our strength. Remember that guys and gals, I believe you will find it is good advice.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I await the next exciting press release on the future of Radio ……………. Could we ask the Printers please in order to simplify things could they just headline all the stories under ‘’’[ CONTRADICTION]’’’ the goalposts seem to be moving that many times they could give the DCMS a run for their money<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Onwards and Upwards everyone wherever onwards and upwards is<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>By all means feel free to shoot me down or agree or add to the observation there you go an e-mail that’s not having a pop at anyone, I must be mellowing in my old age </span><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black'>😊</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#222A35'>Nick <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><img width=242 height=149 style='width:2.5208in;height:1.552in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image005.jpg@01D3C120.8B6124B0" alt=webmainlogo></span><span style='color:#222A35'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#222A35'>Canalside Community Radio Ltd.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35'>Canal 2B, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35'>Clarence Mill, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35'>Bollington,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35'>Cheshire,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35'>SK10 5JZ<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35'>01625 576689<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#3C34D4'><a href="mailto:office@canalsideradio.net"><span style='color:#3C34D4'>office@canalsideradio.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#3C34D4'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#3C34D4'><a href="http://www.canalsideradio.net/"><span style='color:#3C34D4'>www.canalsideradio.net</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><img border=0 width=76 height=36 style='width:.7916in;height:.375in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D3C120.8B6124B0" alt=FBnT></span><span style='color:#222A35'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4937D1'><a href="http://www.twitter.com/canalsideradio"><span style='color:#4937D1'>www.twitter.com/canalsideradio</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#4937D1'><a href="http://www.facebook.com/canalsideradio"><span style='color:#4937D1'>www.facebook.com/canalsideradio</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#222A35'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>