[cma-l] The BBC will fund taking DAB up to 97% coverage

[Office - ccr-fm]

Looks like we're number crunching again ....   surprise surprise, some of us
are on the wrong side of the number line :-(     

 

You have to laugh though :-)        this really is comical.

 

So ... To conclude, on this one it is towns over a certain population, but
on the advertising rules for community radio it is towns below a certain
population. As I have always said ladies and gentlemen
these characters are excellent at moving the goalposts. It basically is
whatever suits.

 

I'm not complaining, I am merely making a point. And furthermore, my
observations and points have ALWAYS been consistent since day dot !

 

No goalposts to move at this end of the pitch.

 

Regards

 

Nick                   :-)    laugh again

 

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From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk
[mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Two Lochs Radio
Sent: 19 October 2011 13:13
To: cma-l
Subject: [cma-l] The BBC will fund taking DAB up to 97% coverage

 

The BBC has confirmed it will pay for taking DAB coverage up from 90% to
97%, reaching all towns with a population greater than 5,000. Sadly (or
not!), we don't have any towns with a population of over 5,000 within 50
miles of us! I presume also that it will continue doing this in our part of
the UK with insufficient capacity on an inefficient single DAB multiplex to
carry even all of its own national channels, let alone any community-based
stations!


>From the Guardian:


The BBC has confirmed it will pay for the rollout of digital audio
broadcasting (DAB) radio to 97% of the population, but culture minister Ed
Vaizey has warned a "huge amount of work" remains to be done to get to
switchover.

The corporation's director of audio and music, Tim Davie, said the BBC would
fund the expansion of its national DAB platform - coverage currently stands
at just over 90% - "despite the tough financial environment".

He said that every town with a population of more than 5,000 people would
have indoor DAB coverage, but admitted that "small pockets of poor coverage
in some of these areas" would remain.

Davie said the priority was "solid coverage" in the UK's top 25 cities, with
boosts to the signal in areas including London, Leicester, Glasgow, Coventry
and Swansea.

In a speech to the Drive to Digital conference at the BBC's Broadcasting
House in central London on Tuesday, Davie eschewed mention of a switchover
date - preferring to talk about "radio's digital hybrid future".

Vaizey picked up on the 2015 switchover target now effectively abandoned by
the industry and said it "still has an important purpose".
"You will no doubt have heard the negatives of digital radio, there has
certainly been no shortage of column inches devoted to the subject," he
added.

"They often suggest that DAB is an out-of-date technology, that coverage and
sound quality are inferior to analogue and listeners are already happy with
what they've got, so why change?"

"There are of course elements of truth in all these statements," admitted
the minister, a sentiment that may have sent eyebrows soaring towards
Broadcasting House's newly-refurbished roof.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/18/bbc-rollout-dab-radio

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