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

[Two Lochs Radio]

I entirely understand your point Ian, but actually in this context I think the phrase "x times better" is the conventional English way of saying 'a value that is 11 times the value of the original'.

I think most radio engineers would say that +6dB is 'four times more powerful', not 'three times more powerful', even if linguistically that might be more accurate.

Just saying...

Alex


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


  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:-

    a.. “Is Radio Cymru fourteen hundred times better than Community radio?”  or
    b.. “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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