[cma-l] Dispersed Communities

[Ian Hickling]

Joseph.
What you are asking for is effectively national coverage for dispersed communities.
This is clearly impossible to achieve with AM or FM because the transmission infrastructure - even if it could be licensed - would be prohibitively expensive.
Digital terrestrial radio (currently DAB) is feasible, but extremely expensive unless you can land a very clever deal with a multiplex owner.
So you are left with Internet - which is cheap but not easy to access if you're not in a WiFi zone or near a PC on a landline - or satellite which isn't much use if you're not near a TV.
Dissemination via mobile phone networks is certainly a possibility, but can or does or will your audience want to listen to you that way?
Short of some very substantial investement, I'm afraid you're at least 20 years too late.
 



 
From: jw at 558.net
To: office at ccr-fm.co.uk; cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:22:48 +0000
Subject: Re: [cma-l] quick story to tell fellows


I think the concept of Community according to OFCOM need to be re-visit. I believe the licence system need to take into consideration of the real need to the community. How local is local before it starts to compete with the commercial sector? And is such competition always a bad things? How about the need of the dispersed community? The current licence system does not service communities which are large in number nationally but not concentrated enough in a single geographical area to apply for a community licence.

Joseph Wu
Spectrum Chinese Programme 		 	   		  
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