[cma-l] Ofcom Radio Broadcast Update - Community Radio

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Community Radio Fund Round 2, 2009/10
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The first round for funding applications to the Community Radio Fund
in 2009/10 will open on 13 October 2009 and will close at close of
business on 10 November 2009. The awarding Panel will meet on 25
January 2010 to consider the applications.

Grants can only be made to community radio licensees who are
broadcasting under a community radio licence (and not an RSL, for
example) and which are on-air by the time the Panel meets in January.

The latest application form and guidance notes are available at

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/commun_radio/Communityfund/

Please also see statements detailing the outcome of previous Panel meetings.

For further information, please contact Ofcom's Community Radio Team
via email: communityradio at ofcom.org.uk, or by telephone 020 7981 3860.

Licences issued in this period
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Service Name 	Licensee                           	Location
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Alive Radio	Alive Christian Media Limited	Dumfries
Radio JCom	Radio JCom Limited	                Leeds
Sine FM	        Higher Rhythm Limited         	Doncaster


Licences awarded in this period and reasons for the awards
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Ofcom has published the reasons for the award of five community radio
licences in the southeast of England:

Service Name	Area
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Marlow FM	Marlow, Bucks
Radio BGWS 	Farnborough, Aldershot, Camberley and Fleet
Seahaven FM	Newhaven, Seaford and Peacehaven, East Sussex
The Park	        Brockenhurst, Hampshire
Voice FM	        Southampton

The full statement can be viewed here:

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/commun_radio/tlproc/awards/sep09/

Licence Compliance:
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A 'Yellow Card' was issued to Radio Cardiff. The station has not been
providing the service required by its licence, as defined in its 'key
commitments' (http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/Community/commitments/cr094.pdf),
for a number of months.

Source: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/rbupdates/update0909/

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