The following is an open letter to Angela Rayner, the new Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, and Lisa Nandy, the new Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom, written by Better Media member Rob Watson for Decentered Media on 10th July 2024. We republish it here…
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Hello and welcome back to a bumper monthly update from Better Media. I was away on leave last week, so this June update is coming to you slightly late and we have plenty to catch up on after a dramatic month ahead of the country going to the polls today.
Hello and welcome to a slightly belated Better Media monthly update, for May 2024. I’m Rowan Gavin, Better Media Campaign Co-ordinator.
Hello and welcome to Better Media’s April 2024 update. No fools here! Just me, Rowan Gavin, Better Media Campaign Co-ordinator.
Hello and welcome to another update on the work of Better Media. Rowan Gavin here, Better Media Campaign Co-ordinator.
Over the past few weeks, we at Better Media have been working on putting together a submission to the Ofcom consultation on its proposed Plan of Work for the financial year 2024/25. Our submission focused on much-needed reforms to radio spectrum allocation, a need for more detail on the planned Local Media Review, and some areas…
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Over the past few weeks, we at Better Media have been working on putting together a submission to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) consultation on future licensing arrangements for analogue (AM & FM) community radio. In our view the DCMS proposals are based on flawed evidence and assumptions, and as such we advocate…
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Hello! This is the first update from Better Media in 2024 – happy new year.
Hello and welcome to a slightly delayed update from Better Media. Rowan Gavin here, Better Media Campaign Co-ordinator. Between illness and travel I didn’t work very many hours for Better Media in October, so rather than produce a very short update last month we decided to roll two months together.
Hello and welcome to the Better Media monthly update, which this time round has a focus on the recent developments with the Media Bill.