@photographthesun 526475 wrote:
that’s a bold statement to make GL
Before broadband years ago the young folk about Deezl’s age volunteering at a community or student radio station might have been able to get a paid job at Radio 1 (not sure if 1xtra was invented even then!) or one of the many “yoof media” channels which would have been a step on the ladder. Now the bulk of them are going to have about 3 months of fun then end up reading out scripts in a call centre.
I also notice the studios etc being closed down as I’m always on the look out for professional AV equipment for the radio station and friends home studios and there is a lot of cheap second hand broadcast quality kit around. People from closed down commercial studios were giving away stuff to our local community station as it would otherwise be sold for scrap metal or WEEE recovery.
Also Suffolk (being but 70 miles from London) is full of “resting” artists/creative types, the lucky ones get part time jobs in PR/Marketing for corporate stuff. Even much of that is being outsourced to any country what just about speaks something resembling English…
Short content like adverts and music + videos is just about working as music especially can be funded by live events where they are permitted – and ads are of course latched to another product but more and more projects just aren’t getting funded any more. OK some thing like community media are picked up by charity and middle class goodwill but that means its not a place for more “edgy” content or they will lose their funding.
