[cma-l] FW: The Cost Of The DAB Trials

[tlr at gairloch.co.uk]

To be honest Nick, much as I loathe PPL's approach, I don't see the problem with
understanding the NET bit!
 
The Copyright Tribunal, who's decision underpins all this, decided that
copyright royalties should not be levied on a radio station's profits (or for a
non-profit body, its surpluses), but would be based instead on its revenue,
whether or not the station manages to turn that into a profit or a loss.
Otherwise no doubt big radio stations would do what big corporations do, and
find creative ways of making their profits shrink for the purposes of taxes and
royalties.
 
However, to allow for the fact that a proportion of the revenue has to be spent
on commission and other overheads, such as the expenses of sponsored OBs, it was
agreed that radio stations would actually be assessed after deduction of 15% and
other allowable expenses from their gross revenue. After the deductions that's
the NET broadcasting revenue, NBR, which is then assessed for royalties.
 
Nothing complicated - it's net in that it's what's left from your gross revenue
after deduction of the assumed commission and allowed expenses. So it doesn't
matter whether or not you are a 'non-profit', either by design or accident, PPL
still gets its cut of your income derived from broadcasting (but not from
grants, donations etc). A barter deal where you receive something in return for
broadcasting something is also broadcast revenue.
 
The DAB licence thing is of course another question. In my opinion there is no
justification for PPL to ask for extra money for a simulcast by DAB (nor by
Internet). If having the extra delivery method enhances the value of your
station then that will be reflected in increased revenues and they will get
their cut automatically under the existing NBR arrangements. I see no
justification for any additional charge simply because you are available on two
different types of radio.
 
 Alex
 
 

> On 12 March 2015 at 16:38 Canalside's The Thread <office at thethread.org.uk>
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>  From: Canalside's The Thread [mailto:office at thethread.org.uk]
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>  To: 'Geoff Rogers'
>  Subject: RE: [cma-l] The Cost Of The DAB Trials
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>  What I don’t understand and can’t get my head around with all this PPL
> malarkey is whether someone is listening via FM, Internet or DAB there is
> still only one of them    ie:- one person. I have never ever listened at the
> same time to a Radio Broadcast with all three in residence. In fact, there
> would be a milli-second delay between DAB and FM   I think ??   and in our
> case 30 seconds out of sync on the Internet stream ……….so, unless someone can
> tell me otherwise, the person listening is still one person listening to one
> show via one mode. So why the extra charges anyway ????    sorry chaps, I
> don’t get that one ?
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>  I repeat again …………it’s a half legalised money making racket …………………… nothing
> more and nothing less
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>  I still have an issue with them   re:- reporting (contra deals)       we have
> a contra with the local Milkman, the local Newsagent and the local Printer …
> my job is very intense and I am extremely busy, I do not put ticking off how
> many milk bottles we have a day as a priority so that we can work out a contra
> cost. It’s a nonsense, as is all the reporting.
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>  I have said this before and I will say it again, they do not understand what
> NET means         I’m not interested in dividing the square roooooot of 24 by
> 85% and then taking away the number you first thought of because our end
> result every year is ZERO      we are not for profit and all monies go back in
> the project. Likewise, when we were £9000 in the red four years ago, I don’t
> recall them offering a rebate.
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>  I’m not interested in them at all and I believe if it did go to the top we
> may have a good case if put together correctly.
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>  To be honest I am so confused with our Internet and FM and then Phase One
> another DAB = £500 on top plus reporting would possibly tip me over and I’d go
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>  I have been trying to file our figures for the past two weeks ……the first
> quarter is on, but quarters 2,3 and 4 won’t let me as they keep saying already
> reported, which I don’’t think they have ….it’s all a waste of time and effort
> and just causes angst. I can only speak for myself of course    oh   and
> plenty of others who tell me so, but don’t make their feelings known.
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