[cma-l] Radio 1 Eleven Times Better than Commercial Radio? – FM Spectrum Consumption in the UK

[Associated Broadcast Consultants]

Wrist firmly slapped, now corrected!

It does not impact the thrust of the argument one iota though!

Glyn

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On 13 July 2015 at 11:18, Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Can we get this on to a mathematically sound basis please?
> Sorry - pet hate - but let's be accurate with numbers.
> "Eleven times better" is the same as "Twelve times as good" - so why not
> use the "better" number?
> If you don't follow this - work out what "One time better" would be - it
> has to be "Twice as good" - and then follow the sequence.
> Use numbers wrongly and you mis-inform.
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> From: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:50:46 +0100
> To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
> Subject: [cma-l] Is Radio 1 Eleven Times Better than Commercial Radio? –
> FM Spectrum Consumption in the UK
>
> It’s a deliberately provocative title – “*Is Radio 1 Eleven Times Better
> than Commercial Radio?*”  That is to say, does it deserve to be able to
> use 11 times more FM spectrum resource per listener than Commercial radio?
> We could equally have asked:-
>
>    - “*Is Radio Cymru fourteen hundred times better than Community radio?*”
>     or
>    - *“Is BBC Radio 3 three times better than Classic FM?”*
>
> These questions stem from an analysis we have done of the way our FM radio
> spectrum is consumed in the UK.  All things being equal, then approximately
> the same amount of this precious resource called “spectrum” should be
> consumed for each listener.  But as we will see, things are far from equal.
> More here from Glyn Roylance:
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> http://a-bc.co.uk/radio-1-eleven-times-better-commercial-radio-fm-spectrum-utilisation-uk/
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