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

[Tony Bailey]

Glyn,

Since the number of listeners to a radio service can vary from something 
like 1% to 50% in a given service area, stats based on reach results can 
easily make a particular service look poor value for money.  Another 
important factor is the division of the FM band into sub bands for 
National, Local, BBC, ILR.  So there are fewer constraints on the use of 
"out of area" transmission sites.

The height data is usually taken to be height above average terrain, not 
above ground or sea level.  Antenna power is combined with this and 
consequently a fair comparison needs to look at both.

Regards,  Tony Bailey

On 13/07/15 10:50, CMA-L wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> http://a-bc.co.uk/radio-1-eleven-times-better-commercial-radio-fm-spectrum-utilisation-uk/
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