[cma-l] Community Radio Future In Doubt?

[Alan Coote]

Surely this sounds alarm bells at the CMA? 

>From the Independent News Paper this Sunday. 

"The DCMS spokeswoman said there were no plans for a sell-off  [FM Spectrum]
"at the moment", but did not rule it out. "We may come to a situation where
a proportion of bandwidth is no longer required, and will consider possible
other uses for it." 

With an estimated £100M - £200M going into the proposed DAB upgrade, should
we not expect space for Community Radio to be included then we're all happy
that FM can be switched off? 

Full story here:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/so-who-thinks-dab-is-the-fu
ture-not-enough-of-us-to-make-it-so-2151512.html

Alan

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