[cma-l] Fwd: Ofcom publishes applications for small scale DAB trials

[Martin Steers]

I imagine that Ofcom might want a variety of people community / commercial
to test the water.

What has been slightly frustrating is that so many applications have ticked
the confidentiality box for details of their application.

Celador application is for a single transmitter to cover Bristol.

UKRD one seems to be just to cover Start Cambridge, although they have
selected type 3 "An SFN carrying multiple services based on at least two
transmitter sites with one of them an on-channel repeater (OCR)."






On 16 April 2015 at 12:13, Alan Coote <alan.coote at 5digital.co.uk> wrote:

>
> I see that UKRD and Celador have made applications, the former not a
> member of Radio Centre (publicly they fell out over Radio Centre’s push to
> DAB) and Celador presumably looking at the feasibility of Small Scale DAB
> for their Breeze brand which is on FM only.
>
> This raises interesting questions regarding the commercial verses
> community license policy which DCMS may apply to Small Scale DAB.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Alan
>
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> Subject: [cma-l] Fwd: Ofcom publishes applications for small scale DAB
> trials
>
> Very interesting and fantastic to see 51 applications for the trial, I do
> wonder if Ofcom will increase / extend the trail.
>
> on a side note I have plotted all the applications onto map to see areas.
> This can be found here: http://goo.gl/7kZ15B (Please feel free to share.
>
> NOTE the map is based on application address on the website and might not
> mean actual coverage or station address (Example there are 3 applications
> at BFBS).
>
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> Known as ‘small scale DAB’, the new approach is best suited for
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