[cma-l] 4ZZZ accounts and parameters

[Tony Bailey]

Alex:

There has probably been more contention about delivering that part of 
Section 105 than any other and not confined to community radio either.

I hadn't heard that JFMG no longer had that contract, it looks like the 
new contractor bounced it.

I thought that most radios used a high local oscillator which would 
start around 98 megs?  Is the other one an image?

I also thought that one of the arguments for low power (<=25 W) was that 
overseas co-ordination wasn't required.

The point about users having control over the assets is that the 
parameters can be changed.

Regards,  Tony

On 08/12/15 17:09, Two Lochs Radio wrote:
> /Alan Coote wrote: I've long contended that Ofcom have a 
> responsibility to only license stations that stand a fair chance of 
> being financially sustainable. /
> //
> Isn't that a legal obligation on Ofcom when awarding licences, Alan? 
> It certainly is a primary consideration when licensing commercial 
> stations. In fact, while they aren;t in orde rof priority, it happens 
> to be the very first of the criteria laid down in the Broadcasting 
> Act, Section 105, which says:
>
> Ofcom is required to have regard to...
> (a) the ability of each of the applicants for the licence to maintain, 
> throughout the period for which the licence would be in force, the 
> service which he proposes to provide;...
>
> Maybe it's not the same for community licences, I haven't checked, but 
> I thought it was.
> /Tony Bailey wrote: 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./
> Didn't Ofcom most recently move in the other direction - I thought 
> they brought JFMG back in-house?
> It would be easy to underestimate the amount of work that would be 
> involved in administering a community sub-band. The coordinating body 
> for such a sub-band wouldn't have a free hand within that band, since 
> as well as keeping clearances within the band, you also have to keep 
> clear of local transmissions that are +/-10.7MHz from any given 
> frequency, and around the periphery also coordinate with the 
> French/Dutch/Irish and co. That's a fair bit of work, and potential 
> duplication of effort in parallel with the same coordination done for 
> BBC/ILR frequencies. If the frequency coordination and clearance 
> paramters weren't changed it seems unlikely that a separate body could 
> do a much better job - it's the parameters being used for frequency 
> planning that generally control the way things end up, not who does 
> the leg work.
> Alex
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Alan Coote <mailto:alan.coote at 5digital.co.uk>
>     *To:* cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
>     <mailto:cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, December 08, 2015 12:59 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [cma-l] 4ZZZ accounts
>
>     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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