[cma-l] Stations under investigation by Ofcom - update

[Bill Best]

The Community Media Association has been in regular contact with the Radio
Licensing Team at Ofcom with regard to the 53 stations that were reported
to be under investigation in November last year.

Ofcom's procedures for investigating breaches of standards for radio are
published online below:

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/guidance/complaints-sanctions/standards/

Ofcom aims to usually complete those cases that it takes forward for
investigation within 50 working days. However much of the focus of the
Radio Team at Ofcom this year has understandably been on the Community
Radio (Amendment) Order 2015 which has somewhat delayed progress on this
issue. Furthermore Ofcom has held back the results of all cases to ensure a
consistency of approach.

The Radio Licensing Team advised that there is a meeting on Tuesday 28th
April of Senior Management to review all pending cases and then they expect
to release the information later in the week.

Stations will be informed by letter and email over a 2-3 day period.

At this stage, Ofcom cannot advise how many stations will not have any
further action taken as this has yet to be finalised by the Senior
Management Team which meets tomorrow.

Stations will either be advised that no further action will be taken or
they will be sent a copy of Ofcom's preliminary view. The preliminary view
is a preview of what Ofcom intends to publish in the Broadcast Bulletin.
Stations receiving a preliminary view will have up to 10 days to respond to
it after which Ofcom will either amend the preliminary view in response to
the station's feedback or publish the original unchanged. The next
Broadcast Bulletin is likely to be issued in early May.

The Community Media Association expects all stations to be contacted by
Ofcom by the end of this week.

Any further queries on this matter can be directed either to the CMA office
or to the Radio Licensing Team at Ofcom.

With best regards

Bill Best
-- 
Operations Manager
Community Media Association
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