[CMA] 4Radio

[Alan Fransman]

Forwarded on behalf of Ed Baxter at Resonance FM

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Subject: 4Radio
From: Ed Baxter <Ed at lmcltd.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 11:08:57 +0100
To: <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>

I am curious as to what CMA members make of Channel 4's "4radio" 
project, with its strap-line "Welcome to the Community" and its attempts 
to place itself in community media territory while it bids for a multiplex.

My opinion, which is admittedly not yet well-informed, is that it is 
largely desperate and risible. The on-line feature articles (including 
one about Resonance) seem like advertorial subtly designed to display a 
healthy interest in grass roots and user-led content. Anyone got an 
overview of this they care to share through the list or privately?

I keep in reserve details of a telling correspondence from the people 
behind "The Radio Plays The Thing," whose poster and on-line campaign 
used an image of a live drama realised at Resonance, without our 
permission or even casual consultation - symptomatic to my mind of 
4Radio's pick-&-choose attitude.

Ed Baxter
Resonance104.4fm
www.resonancefm.com



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