[cma-l] Is Radio 1 twelve times as good as Commercial Radio? – FM Spectrum Consumption in the UK

[Ian Hickling]

I see no virtue in trying to adhere to arbitrary sub-bands.A quick look at TXParams will show that "vagrants" can be and are being accommodated anywhere there's a piece of usable space.We're not going to be able to do a proper re-allocation, so best to carry on with what we are doing.

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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:21:19 +0100
From: ravensound at pilgrimsound.co.uk
To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Is Radio 1 Eleven Times Better than Commercial Radio? – FM Spectrum Consumption in the UK


  
    
  
  
    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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