[cma-l] Tackling pirate radio could save Londoners £1 million

Mon Nov 2 16:17:30 GMT 2015

Hi Ian and list,

But having been involved in the past with a station that was a pirate but
is now fully licensed (Radio Jackie), I have to see it from the point of
view of *some* of the pirates, as the excuses re interference etc are the
same ones that were being trotted out 30 years ago.  And having good
relations with some of the people who enforced the law then, even they
admitted that the instances of interference were very few and far between.

Of course the situation today is very different, most pirates likely buy
their equipment and not being engineers may set it up badly increasing the
possibility of interference.

But my point is it's never totally black and white and those of us who
remember how restrictive radio was until th 21st century should not forget
the role that pirates, both offshore and onshore had in giving us the
increasing freedoms to broadcast we had now..

It's still not perfect and there's a way to go still...

Kind regards,

Geoff

On 2 November 2015 at 16:00, Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Geoff
> Surely you're not defending the people who break the Laws that we here as
> Licensed Broadcasters adhere to - often to our cost?
> I'm all for looking at the facts.
> I'm sure that if we asked Clive Corrie he would be only too pleased to
> supply chapter and verse - and then we could all make up our own minds on
> where we stand.
> Do ou want to ask him - or shall I?
> Maybe it should come formally from the CMA?
>
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> ------------------------------
> From: geoff at susyradio.com
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:37:42 +0000
> To: cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [cma-l] Tackling pirate radio could save Londoners £1 million
>
>
> Hi guys
>
> Not wishing to speak out of turn but this press release about the harm
> that pirate radio does to the community is just trotting out all the old
> arguments.  While the interference claim may be true for a small number of
> occurrences (indeed I did read somewhere that not one of them had been
> proved) it just seems to be a load of unubstantiated statements as to how
> bad 'they' are.
>
> I know pirate radio polarizes arguments here in the CR community - some of
> us have suffered interference - but is the problem as big as we are lead to
> believe.
>
> Like all things government sourced, I believe that if we had a spin bowler
> as good as those putting out these stories then our cricket team would have
> romped to a series win against Pakistan.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Geoff
>
> On 2 November 2015 at 14:51, CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
>
>    - Pirate radio harms residents, communities and the emergency services
>    - New crackdown could save London £1m each year
>    - Ofcom offers legal access to airwaves for broadcasters
>
> A new approach to tackling pirate radio has eradicated the problem in one
> London borough, and could save up to £1 million for Londoners by being
> rolled out across the capital.
>
> Pirate radio harms local communities and the critical communications used
> by the emergency services. Ofcom, which manages radio frequencies, is
> hosting a summit on 3 November to explore the new approach to tackling the
> problem.
>
> Pirate stations typically use high-rise buildings for their broadcasts,
> with illegal transmitters installed on rooftops or hidden in lift shafts.
> This damages residential properties owned by local authorities, disrupting
> residents’ lives and putting people at risk from falling equipment.
>
> Ofcom has been working in north London, one of the UK’s most affected
> areas, with housing body Homes for Haringey. In 2014, 19 pirate radio
> stations were illegally broadcasting in Haringey. By quickly removing their
> transmitters and regularly patrolling and securing rooftops, pirate radio
> has now been eradicated in the borough.
>
> As a result, Homes for Haringey has saved £90,000 in enforcement and
> maintenance costs over the past year.
>
> On 3 November, Ofcom is meeting with local authorities from across London
> to share the success of the Homes for Haringey partnership. If this
> collaborative and proactive approach is rolled out across the capital,
> local authorities stand to save an estimated total of £1 million per year.1
>
> Clive Corrie, Head of Ofcom’s Spectrum Enforcement team, said: "Illegal
> broadcasting harms local communities and risks lives by interfering with
> vital communications used by the emergency services and air traffic control.
>
> "By working in partnership with local authorities, Ofcom is tackling this
> problem. We also strongly urge those broadcasting illegally to get involved
> with internet or community radio, a legitimate route on to the airwaves.”
>
> Astrid Kjellberg-Obst, Executive Director of Operations at Homes for
> Haringey, said: "Pirate radio stations damage people’s homes and can be
> extremely distressing to our residents.
>
> "We’ve seen huge success in tackling the problem with the measures that
> we’ve introduced, removing all pirate radio stations from Haringey and
> saving the borough tens of thousands of pounds in the process. We will
> continue to work with Ofcom to keep Haringey pirate-free.”
>
> Source: http://media.ofcom.org.uk/news/2015/pirate-radio-summit
>
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