[cma-l] 4ZZZ accounts

[Alan Coote]

A prominent person at Ofcom told me that there wasn’t a community station in the country that doesn’t want more power – which tells you quite a lot about Ofcom and their willingness and ability to support the sector!

I’ve long contended that Ofcom have a responsibility to only license stations that stand a fair chance of being financially sustainable. It stands to reason the larger the audience the greater the potential revenue.   


Kind Regards

Alan

 

Alan Coote

 


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Date:  Tuesday, 8 December 2015 at 10:08
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Subject:  Re: [cma-l] 4ZZZ accounts

    
 
Just picked this up after returning from overseas:
 
 I think Paris was something of a special case when they re-assigned the FM band Glyn.  A typical French FM community station in the sticks would have a 200 watt linear feeding a stack of four dipoles.  In Paris they assigned all 50 channels to the National and commercial stations including a few community slots which I think were all shared by the dozen or so interest/ethnic/religious bodies.  I don't remember there being any that did not cover the whole city, hence the unusually high power.  That was all many years ago, but it was interesting to us because all the original local French FM stations were pirates since only medium and long wave was then in use generally.
 
 Para 3 below: I've said this before: Radio Cracker!!
 
 Channel allocations: Actually now may be the time for the CMA to bid for this, if the authorities wish to devolve licensing?  For special events (JFMG) and radio amateurs (RSGB) are doing it already.  It's not a broadcasting issue since that would come under regulation, just radcoms.  Why don't we bid for a community radio sub band and let the BBC and ILR do the rest?
 
 Tony Bailey
 
 On 05/11/15 12:34, Associated Broadcast Consultants wrote:
 
 
 
Interesting James (your insights - not the document that is a boring
financial statement).

I recall seeing somewhere that all the community stations in Paris are on
6kW from very high tower blocks.  Alternative models for community radio
can and do work, even in Europe.

Personally I'd like to see a more flexible approach at both ends - ie:
accommodate larger "community of interest" stations, maybe with stronger
rules if needed and at other end of the scale also some smaller
neighbourhood stations - say 1-5 watts with bare minimum light-touch
regulation that prevents interference concerns  Maybe allocate a single
channel to be used anywhere in the country, with no guarantees of coverage
quality similar to WiFi unlicensed approach.  Or something else that
embraces alternative approaches that others on this forum have alluded to
rather than the current rather quaint, paternalistic approach.

IMHO

Glyn

 
  
 
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