[cma-l] Ofcom to invite small scale DAB testers
Ian Hickling
transplanfm at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 16 12:06:03 BST 2014
This was presented and discussed at the initial meeting in December last year.My posting was from an e-mail conversation with the author and others yesterday, Wednesday 15 October.
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:47:17 +0100
From: ravensound at pilgrimsound.co.uk
To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Ofcom to invite small scale DAB testers
Just in case anyone hasn't seen the
test report:
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/other/radio-research/Software-DAB-Research/
On 15/10/14 15:34, Ian Hickling wrote:
I've also made enquiries with established contacts
at Ofcom and the answer I received was that Ofcom at present
plans to provide a limited number (unspecified) of sets of
equipment which may or may not include antennas and feeders for
the trial period (as yet undecided).
But it was mentioned that trials will be supported by and
will assumedly be carefully observed by Ofcom.
No mention as yet of how or when the participants will be
selected, but they will be expected to arrange their own
installation/erection processes.
Ian
From: clivegloveruk at gmail.com
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 12:19:36 +0100
To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
CC: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Fwd: Ofcom to invite small scale DAB
testers
Sorry to put a dampener on this but OFCOM have told us they
will NOT be providing equipment and period for experiment
will be shorter than suggested in article. Our initial back
of envelope costing is £5K plus for equipment but could be
more in many locations, especially if you need more than one
transmitter to cover designated area.
Worse - if the experimental period is short and any
subsequent decision to change the existing Broadcasting
Act to allow this type of system takes (as usual) many
months or even years, then the expenditure on equipment
will be largely wasted (not least because the experimental
areas and stations may not be awarded licenses in the end
anyway).
The only way this will work is for someone - and OFCOM
would be the most obvious, perhaps funded by DCMS - to
purchase or lease equipment. If they thought about it they
could probably get some funds from the Business Dept or
the EU I suspect, doing what we all do in putting together
grant applications for projects! Maybe the CMA could take
a lead on pushing for this?
Clive Glover
On 14 Oct 2014, at 09:28, Richard Hilton wrote:
I think
the sector should put down a strong marker
fairly early on that if there is to be a new
multiplex structure for our not for profit
sector we would expect the structure to be
run on a not for profit basis.
Richard
From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On
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Sent: 14
October 2014 08:16
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[cma-l] Fwd: Ofcom to invite small scale
DAB testers
It was. He said they
will supply the kit but broadcasters should
sort out the sites, links etc. The
impression I got was that they are mainly
seeking community and commercial partners.
The less good news from an earlier session
on reusing blocks on low power was that to
avoid interference you would need more than
one site to cover a given area. It's
certainly worth exploring
Quickly sent from a
mobile. Hope I've not been auto-corrected.
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From: Martin Steers <martin at martinsteers.co.uk>
Date:13/10/2014 22:32 (GMT+00:00)
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Subject: [cma-l] Fwd: Ofcom to invite small
scale DAB testers
Very
Interesting!
http://radiotoday.co.uk/2014/10/ofcom-to-invite-small-scale-dab-testers/
Small-scale
DAB is to get a boost as
Ofcom prepares to
licence a number of
smaller multiplexes.
The regulator
will launch a consultation
next week inviting
stations to be part of the
test, which will
give existing stations a
chance to go on DAB for a
nine month period.
Peter Davies,
Director of Content Policy
at Ofcom, speaking at the
Tech Con event in Salford
today, said: “There are
around 150 small scale
radio and 200 or more
community radio stations
and for them the existing
multiplex structure just
doesn’t work.
“We want to give
those stations a chance to
go digital, and we’d like
to see community and
commercial stations
working together,” he
said.
Peter started
off his session by
admitting that DAB has not
been a good platform for
small scale radio so far
and this new consultation
will take a look at the
licence conditions and
awards process.
Trials will be
for nine months and ofcom
will provide equipment but
not operating and
installation costs. Once a
station has been awarded a
trial, they will be
expected to be on-air
within 12 months.
More details
will be released by Ofcom
next week, when we’ll
update this story.
Posted on
Monday, October 13th,
2014 at 3:02 pm by Radio
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