Sep 10, 2009
Over 200 community radio services have been licensed by Ofcom since 2004. Around 150 of these services are on air, creating around 400 jobs, involving over 10,000 volunteers, and serving a potential audience of more than 10 million people.
Yet this new sector is economically very precarious. Six stations have failed to launch, three have handed back their licences. A number of others are at high risk.
It’s easy to help – all you have to is sign up here:
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/allthevoices/
Guardian Article by Steve Buckley
Aug 26, 2009
Steve Buckley, one of the directors of CM Solutions has written an article for the Guardian highlighting the crisis in community radio funding
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OFCOM announce four more community radio licences
Jul 2, 2009
OFCOM published on the 17th June 2009 the reasons for the award of four community radio licences.
The licences were awarded to:
Academy FM, Ramsgate, Kent
Academy FM, Folkstone, Kent
Radio Sunlight, Gillingham, Kent
Rye FM, Rye, East Sussex
The full statement can be found at:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/commun_radio/tlproc/awards/jun09/
[Read More]Community Media Solutions is featured on Amazing People
Jul 24, 2008
We've been featured as a case study on the website www.amazingpeople.org.uk.
Amazing People is a promotional marketing project which has been developed to market the value and great work of the third sector to businesses and public sector organisations in South Yorkshire.
Steve Buckley is joint author of a new bookJul 21, 2008
"Broadcasting, Voice and Accountability, A Public Interest Approach to Policy, Law and Regulation" is published. Steve Buckley is one of the authors of a new book looking at the issues involved in developing community based broadcasting in countries across the world (along with Kreszentia Duer, Toby Mendel and Seán Ó Siochrú).
Steve is one of the Directors of CM Solutions and has been working for several years on this study outlining conditions under which radio, television and online broadcasting can fulfil a vital role in development by making governments accountable, and giving voice to the world’s poor.
[Read More]How could mobile phones be used as a creative tool in community media?
Mar 13, 2008
We would love to know what you think about using mobile phones in community radio. Please download a questionnaire and send it back to us at nicky@cmso.co.uk
There is a prize of £20 for one lucky respondent who returns the survey by March 19!
Your information will contribute to M3,Making Media on the Move, a research and development project to investigate how community radio listeners and producers might record, edit and send short audio clips to their local community radio station using a mobile phone
[Read More]CM Solutions is Melting!
Jan 18, 2008
CM Solutions and Sheffield Live have been awarded a Melt R&D award for an R&D project called Making Media on the Move (M3)
Making Media on the Move (M3) will encourage the radio listener to become a creative media producer. Mixing broadcasting, mobile telephony and the Internet it will support and pioneer new forms of user generated content and take them to a mass media audience.
[Read More]Turn Up the Volume Showcase Event
Sep 11, 2007
21 September 2007
Celebrating the Turn Up the Volume project.
CM Solutions has provided support to over 40 projects in South Yorkshire over the last three years as part of the TUTV project. TUTV is now coming to an end and the CMA is organising a celebratory bash for all the projects and people that have been involved in the project. Linda McAvan, Labour MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber will give a key note speech.
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