[cma-l] 'Now we are 200'

[Phil Korbel]

Congrats to the lucky three.

200 - that's a nice number to juggle with, and it certainly raised a few 
eye-brows at the Sony Awards meet I attended this morning (as in 'we've 
really arrived now folks').

Anyone know how many local commercial stations there are?

bests

Phil

> 2009/5/20 CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
> 
>     Ofcom has announced the award of a further three new community radio
>     licences as part of its licensing round in the South East of England
>     (excluding within the M25). They are:
> 
>     - HCR FM, Huntingdon
> 
>     - Intobeats, Bedford
> 
>     - AHBS Community Radio, Ashford, Kent
> 
>     This now takes the number of community radio licences awarded by Ofcom
>     to over 200.
> 
>     Since community radio was introduced in 2004 Ofcom has received 360
>     applications in two licensing rounds.  201 groups have been offered
>     licences so far, and of these 135 stations have already commenced
>     broadcasting.
> 
>     Details of the three new community radio stations are as follows:
> 
>     http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2009/05/nr_20090520
> 
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