[cma-l] Community Radio & Digital Radio Switchover

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Oral Answers to Questions - Culture, Media and Sport: Digital Radio
Switchover (20 Jul 2009)

Siôn Simon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, DCMSt; Birmingham,
Erdington, Labour):

"We are ensuring with radio switchover that community organisations
and small community radio stations, which might currently be able to
broadcast for only two weeks a year, will inherit the FM spectrum
currently taken up by big regional and national FM broadcasters.
Precisely such small, commercial, local community organisations will
be able to flourish in the digital future in a way that they are
technologically constrained from doing now."

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2009-07-20a.561.3&s=%22community+radio%22#g562.0


Siôn Simon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, DCMSt; Birmingham,
Erdington, Labour):

"The "Digital Britain" White Paper was clear that analogue radio, via
FM, will continue beyond 2015. After the digital radio upgrade is
completed, the vacated FM spectrum will be allocated to community
radio stations and a new tier of ultra-local commercial radio."

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2009-07-20a.564.0&s=%22community+radio%22#g564.2

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