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

Thu Apr 16 15:11:51 BST 2015

>From my brief reading of the applications (not details at all), I think the
highest proposed services that was published was 6 (2 applications that I
saw).

I agree that it doesnt in theory who manages a local DAB mux as long as
pricing is done in a fair way. In an ideal situation I would love to see
local Mux license to have to be not for profit / social gain. To try and
prevent them pricing community stations out of the market.

By the way I do consider that some commercial stations have massive social
gain, and dont see that term as exclusive to community radio.

On 16 April 2015 at 15:07, Associated Broadcast Consultants <info at a-bc.co.uk
> wrote:

> Ian,
>
> I don't see anything particularly wrong with a commercial approach per
> se.  Indeed many community stations may not want the hassle, or not be the
> best type of organisation to run a reliable, sustainable mux.  So why not
> have a company that delivers that service?
>
> Where I would have a problem would be if incumbent Mux operators were
> allowed to bid for them.  This would present a real risk that they repeat
> the pricing model they have for existing DAB - undermining the whole point
> of the project!
>
> My working assumption here is that any DAB mux would contain a number of
> services.  In theory I guess a mux could just be one service, and in that
> circumstance it would most sensibly be operated by that community station.
> But surely Ofcom would not encourage such inefficient use of spectrum (a
> DAB mux uses an identical amount of spectrum whether it contains one
> station or 20)
>
> Glyn
>
> --
> Glyn Roylance - Principal Consultant
> Associated Broadcast Consultants <http://www.a-bc.co.uk/>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 16 April 2015 at 13:08, Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As the trial was originated to allow access to DAB for Community Radio
>> Licensees, I for one will be highly disappointed and probably quite verbal
>> if this is seen to be taken over by the commercial interests.
>> Having been directly involved with 14 of the applicants and provided the
>> technical input to their submissions, I have seen in the ones we have
>> supported alone enough variety to cover the 10 available trial formats.
>> But unreserved compliments to Martin James and Rashid Mustapha and their
>> colleagues at Ofcom both for persevering with the initiative - and clearly
>> generating an excellent response.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> From: martin at martinsteers.co.uk
>> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:20:32 +0100
>> To: alan.coote at 5digital.co.uk
>> CC: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
>> Subject: Re: [cma-l] Fwd: Ofcom publishes applications for small scale
>> DAB trials
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Alan Coote
>> Executive Producer Let’s Talk Business
>>
>> Email - alan.coote at 5digital.co.uk
>> Phone - 0800 949 6655
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>>
>> From: "martin at martinsteers.co.uk" <martin at martinsteers.co.uk>
>> Reply-To: "martin at martinsteers.co.uk" <martin at martinsteers.co.uk>, "
>> cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk" <cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk>
>> Date: Thursday, 16 April 2015 11:13
>> To: "cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk" <cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk>
>> 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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>> Subject: Ofcom publishes applications for small scale DAB trials
>> To: "martin at martinsteers.co.uk" <martin at martinsteers.co.uk>
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>>  Ofcom has published 51 applications
>> <http://ofcom.cmail2.com/t/i-l-yhujtjy-ptyukklu-h/> received for trials
>> of a new approach that could provide small radio stations across the UK
>> with an affordable way to broadcast on DAB digital radio.
>>
>> Known as ‘small scale DAB’, the new approach is best suited for
>> broadcasting to a small geographic area, ideal for community and local
>> radio stations.
>>
>> Ofcom intends to license up to ten trials of small scale DAB to help
>> inform Ofcom’s work on identifying suitable frequencies for broadcasting
>> smaller digital stations and how these services could be licensed.
>>
>> Small scale DAB is cheaper than current systems because it is uses
>> software freely available from opendigitalradio.org rather than relying
>> on often expensive hardware equipment.
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>> If the trials are successful, UK radio listeners could benefit from more
>> local and community radio stations on DAB.
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