[cma-l] 4ZZZ accounts

[Alan Coote]

Alex, 

As far as I’m aware Ofcom don’t verify the estimates from sponsorship and advertising. If they did I’m confident they would see that the revenue per listener from most 25W community stations isn’t enough.     

The question should be, ‘Given the type, location and competition from other radio stations, what is the desired coverage to deliver a sustainable service ?’

Answer; significantly greater than 25 Watts! 
  
Alan  

From:  <cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk> on behalf of "tlr at gairloch.co.uk" <tlr at gairloch.co.uk>
Reply-To:  "cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk" <cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk>
Date:  Tuesday, 8 December 2015 at 17:09
To:  "cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk" <cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk>
Subject:  Re: [cma-l] 4ZZZ accounts

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 
 
To: 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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