[cma-l] Free Community Radio Seminar

[Two Lochs Radio]

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> From: Phil Edmonds <lists at philedmonds.info>
>
> Secondly a question - what royalty rates do the "community radio"
> stations up in Scotland who are actually licensed as "ILR" stations
> pay? Are these stations members of Radio Centre?

Five of the seven community stations with commercial licenses in the 
Highlands and Islands are members of RadioCentre, and benefit from the group 
scheme for MCPS payments. It also gives use of RACC for advertising 
clearance.

The seven stations all pay the commercial radio broadcasting rates for PRS 
and PPL, but the copyright bodies' commercial rates are pretty well 
identical to their community radio rates:

for PRS both pay 3% royalties, subject to a minimum of £636.
for PPL both pay 2% royalties, with a minimum of about £590.

The percentage rates rise if broadcast income is above about £600k, but I 
doubt that applies to anyone here!

Of course in practice CR licencees are likely to have lower actual PRS/PPL 
liabilities than commercial stations of similar turnover, because a greater 
proportion of CR income is likely to come from non-broadcast sources 
(grants, donations, fundraising) which is not subject to royalty assessment.

Alex