Dr. Eddie Brennan:

I agree that partnerships and collaborations are essential in any sector. The way to think of it is about media as an ecosystem where different parts of the media feed into each other. There is clearly a commercial sector, public service, community broadcasting, online ventures and so on. It is important to have collaboration, shared content or other sharing schemes but it is important also to recognise the differences. While Mr. O'Reilly's scheme is excellent, and I wish him the best of luck with it because it is an exciting project, it is important to recognise also that there is a difference in what he is doing as an online commercial venture and a not-for-profit, regulated community broadcasting venture. Nonetheless, collaboration would be an exciting prospect.