[cma-l] SRSL Applications around Ramadan

[Associated Broadcast Consultants]

As I've said before, they must have huge overheads if the £600 application
fee does not (more than) cover the cost of considering the application.

Perhaps they ought to consider out-sourcing peaks in activity to commercial
broadcast engineering consultancies who might be more flexible and maybe
could do the work more cost effectively....?

Glyn Roylance
Principal Consultant
www.a-bc.co.uk


On 24 March 2014 17:44, Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Can I ask how many others have fallen foul of Ofcom's restrictions on
> running an SRSL in any time period which clashes with the timing of
> Ramadan and Eid - approximately 27 June to 30 July this year?
> We have been refused even the consideration for a Licence for a 14-day RSL
> for a Client running an Arts Festival in an area where there is no
> Application for a licence for Ramadan on the pretext that:
> 1 - We did not apply before 14 January - when we were not even aware of
> the event,
> 2 - There is another (non-Ramadan) RSL licensed in the area - which we are
> also facilitating.
> 3 - We are asking for "second frequency" - which we are not because the
> two will happily co-exist on the same channel by virtue of 16km of wooded
> hills between the two transmitters - and there are around 10 other feasible
> frequencies out of a total of 204 which could be used at the location we
> are submitting.
> 4 - It has had to spend most of the last two weeks turning down similar
> requests and that it is not prepared to make a special case.
>
> 5 - It has received over 100 applications for this period, and engineers
> cannot plot all the frequencies if late requests keep coming in.
>
> 6- The M25 and London is the scale of areas that can be closed off after
> the deadline and even if one RSL could be fitted in somewhere they don't
> revisit the issue after the deadline is closed. In fact only three
> applications were received from within that very large area of population
> and one other was rejected as being received too late.
>
> 7 - All applications (not just Ramadan) had to be in within the
> application window specified for them to undertake the work - which
> statement was apparently somewhere on the website but which was certainly
> not notified to its list of transmssion suppliers.
>
> The point I am making to Ofcom is that it knows it will receive a large
> number of Ramadan applications and it knows where they will be concentrated.
>
> It would seem prudent to prepare adequately for the demand and not
> actively penalise other areas. Instead it appears to be rejecting
> applications which at any other time of year would be accepted and
> processed in the normal way.
>
> If we were in Leeds/Bradford/Huddersfield I could understand the problem.
>
> But on the Berkshire/Oxfordshire border?
>
>
>
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