[cma-l] Proposed Discussion with Ben Bradshaw, Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport

[Ian Hickling]

If you have the opportunity to put some points to him regarding the 
furtherance of Community Radio - I would suggest that they are:

1 - The total revision of the advertising restrictions on Community 
Radio stations as being a severe and unnecessary handicap to their 
financial viability.

2 - The speeding up of the Frequency Clearance process by removing the 
present obstacles of the excessive time currently taken by the BBC, the 
ARB and the EBU/CCIR to carry out the required formalities.

3 - The revision by Ofcom of its restrictions on the use of frequencies 
adjacent to other broadcasters, particularly the removal of now 
unnecessary guard bands, the revision of 2nd, 3rd and 4th adjacent 
relative power levels and the removal or stringent revision of 
restrictions imposed by the concept of IF imaging.

4 - The encouraging of Ofcom to actively and efficiently remove all 
illegal broadcasters, particularly in inner-city areas.

Ian Hickling
Partner
transplan UK

 > Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 15:36:47 +0100
 > From: info at phonic.fm
 > To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
 > Subject: Re: [cma-l] Open letter from the CMA to Ben Bradshaw,
 > Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport
 >
 > You might be interested to know that Ben Bradshaw is the MP for
 > Exeter,
 > comes from a radio journalism background with BBC Radio Devon, and has
 > been helpful to us in a number of ongoing ways with our station.
 >
 > He will be visiting us again during June and if there were specific
 > points that you would like to have raised we could be prepared to do
 > so.
 >
 > Our main issue is the prohibition of advertising or sponsorship for
 > Phonic FM a discussion which was ongoing before Ben relinquished his
 > post with Ag & Fisheries!
 >
 > Hope this helps.
 >
 > The Phonic Crew