[cma-l] Ofcom Investigations: Speech to Music Ratio
Ian Hickling
transplanfm at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 9 15:05:18 BST 2014
PreciselyIf you find you can't meet your planned/licensed KCs, tell Ofcom why and request a change.Obviously if it looks as if you're requesting a dilution of your format, propose something you can achieve in exchange.
From: martin at martinsteers.co.uk
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 11:50:35 +0100
To: alan.coote at 5digital.co.uk
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Subject: Re: [cma-l] More Ofcom Investigations: Speech to Music Ratio
great advice Alan,
Not sure I would recommend option 1. there is also option 4. Talk to ofcom and if you need to change it slightly and its reasonable then put a key commitment change in.
On 8 July 2014 14:13, Alan Coote <alan.coote at 5digital.co.uk> wrote:
I’ve been reading a few Ofcom Broadcast Bulletins. It’s very surprising that several CR stations have been found in breach of their Key Commitments because of not meeting their Speech to Music Ratio.
The Daytime Speech Ratio is not that difficult to calculate;
1) Ofcom specify Daytime between 6am – 7pm unless in your application / Key Commitments you have otherwise i.e. 7am – 7pm.
2) For the calculation Speech does not include Adverts, Sponsorship Messages or Programme Trails.
3) Over a 12 hour day and for a typical clock which includes 12 minutes of stuff which can’t be used, a 20% ratio means you’ll need around 2 hours of speech a day. For 30% you need nearly 3 hours a day
What to do about it?
1) Do nothing - Ofcom don’t have the resources to monitor every CR station. They are duty bound though to investigate if someone suggests that a station is operating outside its Key Commitments.
2) You could talk to Ofcom if you have temporary issues meeting the Key Commitments – staffing for example
3) You could schedule a speech programme to safely increase the ratio. Either do you own or get on the distribution of a professional media company.
I wouldn’t want our 30 minute speech programme to be used either as a filler or temporarily, but neither should resource strapped stations find themselves under investigation for not fixing a simple problem.
If you want to make sure you permanently meet your Speech Ratio Key Commitment send me an email and I’ll put you on the programme distribution list.
Kind Regards
Alan
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Sent: 08 July 2014 08:35
To: Associated Broadcast Consultants; cma-l
Subject: [cma-l] Note from Ofcom for RSLs
Judging from recent experience with Ofcom only offering 10W in many places when previously 25 has been given, I suspect many operators have been turning the wick up quite a bit with the knowledge that if Ofcom decides to check they will get a phone call and have time to turn it back down again.
We issue Licensees that we facilitate with a "Commissioning Certificate" so that we. they and Ofcom have the parameters in writing.
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 14:17:56 +0100
From: info at a-bc.co.uk
To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Note from Ofcom for RSLs
Either that, or maybe technical compliance if they suspsect some stations are pushing too much power or using dodgy equipment or something.
Apart for the obvious things like politics, religion and swearing, the content of RSL's is pretty much upto the broadcaster. Nothing like Key Commitments. They pay for that priviledge though - approximately 40 times more than CR broadcasters.
Glyn
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On 6 July 2014 17:23, Martin Steers <martin at martinsteers.co.uk> wrote:
I suspect its purely monitoring for on air compliance, the RSL format wise dont go into major details like it does for a CR or commercial station.
M
On 6 July 2014 12:34, shirleyludford at btinternet.co <shirleyludford at btinternet.com> wrote:
Hi Alan,
It would be interesting to know far the criteria for gaining an RSL is monitored. One group in Swindon has had a few RSLs, used several of our Presenters and covered events that we were covered/were going to cover and had "Radio 2 style programmes during the day".
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From: Alan Coote <alan.coote at 5digital.co.uk>
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Sent: Sunday, 6 July 2014, 7:03
Subject: [cma-l] Note from Ofcom for RSLs
All,
This from the latest broadcast bulletin
Note to Broadcasters
Targeted monitoring exercise – short-term Restricted Licence Services (‘S-RSLs’)
Ofcom licenses S-RSLs, which are normally granted for coverage of special events, trial services and other special on-off projects. These licences are granted on a temporary basis (often only for a few weeks) and are only available to specific and often small geographical areas. In 2013, Ofcom issued a total of 257 S-RSL licences.
Ofcom formally notifies S-RSL broadcasters that we are conducting a monitoring exercise of S-RSL broadcasts in July and August.
S-RSL broadcasters are put on notice that any serious or repeated failings in this area will result in Ofcom taking further regulatory action, for example, the consideration of the imposition of statutory sanctions.
Alan
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