taken part in producing a community newspaper in yout locality, or used your local community prishop to run off posters or leallets for 2 demn. Ton may mave usd portable video, tape-slides or photozmphy in a comes context, or maybe tried to gain radio station. Perhaps you are a worker in the established media who is ted up with their paternalism and excessive dependence on commercial advertising.
FORUM Iso, you should be interested in the Community CommuniCOMCOM for short, Ir was formed in May 1977 and is a broadly-based, pressure group for activists and radically reforming the communications media in Britain. Al present weare concentrating Du enoRs a a regional and local level, where we believe there is most stone lot immediate change The aimcol COMCOM are to co cremate and act as an mermaion exchange or te development of community munications Group ding press, video, film, radio.
nications resources. We wantro OwnersHP operaton of radio and tele vision srations, with adequate lundine lar communis communication services.
Weare alsocampaigning For a statutory right of access to and cifective communication and information services - Jrom local 10 national level: as well as toc democratic control over these services.
We have so far published two editions of Comcom News, our: LIK Newslerrer, which fune and HUSHS exchange beiween the many going on throughout Brutam, as the latest information pr sity media field.
We hare also published n 42 of broadcating winch we sub anilled ar our evidence to thie Home Secretary. Broadly speaking. we supported the Annan contmittee's analysis duopoly of the BBC and JBA information broadcasting systems which were the major short-term of new and radical develop ments in British broedcasting.
We therefore strongly codorsed its proposais for the casteng Authority page pamphler in reple to the cacourage new fores of nonownership of local radio and craneles to Lorden, Midlands, West South Wales, which Liverpool on would and possibly others opposed its proposal that local hroudesire chanti be finane es solely from advertising.
Our activities lo date have included establishing recons непали:
West Yorkshire. SouthEast Midlands, North-west half-inch Scotland, Northern Ireland casselles Kand comacis in the Irish Republic). We are holding our first UK Gencral Meeting Sacurday January, at whiel we intead to establish working groups to examine the followine areas, Local radio: to examine access to air-time, control pl Community cable radio experiments: to co-ordinate and ween the live cable radio ex Dy the Home Dice. Access o Video and Audioto Broadcasting: 1c lechnica constraints. The White Paper on broadcasting respanse working party to reply to the White Paper due printing, publishing and lib
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