[cma-l] Community Radio & Digital Radio Switchover

[Karl Hartland]

Ian, Phil, my forehead is red raw this morning after all the slapping 
I've been giving it over that little gem...

Anyone see Ofcom's beauty on twitter following East of England awards? 
Making what they/he/she must have thought was a witty reference to Alan 
Partridge and how 'he needs to look out, the next gen. of radio stars 
are coming"... give me strength... 
http://twitter.com/Ofcom/status/1347830252

I'm dropping Mr Simon a line now...I shall share if I get a response

K

Phil Korbel wrote:
> well aint that fascinating...
>
> Sion starts so well - but in the last sentence that word 'commercial' 
> pops up - weirdly even. 
>
> Be good to enquire what was meant.
>
> The clue is in that 2nd statement - a new tier of ultra local 
> commercial radio.  You what?  Where did that come from?  If our 
> commercial comrades are charging towards conglomeration and other 
> forms of de-localising their output, who on earth thinks that smaller 
> commercial stations are viable?  If this is pursued - we'll be 
> fighting for scraps of frequency left over from the commercial table 
> yet again.
>
> Am I over-reacting?
>
> bests
>
> Phil
>
>
>
> 2009/7/21 CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk <mailto:cma-l at commedia.org.uk>>
>
>     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
>     <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
>     <http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2009-07-20a.564.0&s=%22community+radio%22#g564.2>
>
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