[cma-l] Community Radio & Digital Radio Switchover

[Ian Hickling]

I don't know where Siôn Simon gets the information in that Statement, but the wording "small community radio stations, which might currently be able to broadcast for only two weeks a year" betrays a poor comprehension of current practice.

It's meaningless flannel as far as I'm concerned, and should be vigorously questioned.

If we're going to get a Statement, let's insist on it being authoritative and useful.

Ian Hickling

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> From: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:29:51 +0100
> To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
> Subject: [cma-l] Community Radio & Digital Radio Switchover
> 
> 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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