[cma-l] The DAB issue

[James Cridland]

>I think you’ll find that the 47.3% figure that James has quotes is an
aggregated figure for the share of listening to radio in London on all
digital platforms - not just DAB but also DTV and online/smartphone/tablet
- currently 39.9% across the whole of the UK.<

Correct.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:27 AM David Duffy <david at theradiopeople.co.uk>
wrote:

> I think you’ll find that the 47.3% figure that James has quotes is an
> aggregated figure for the share of listening to radio in London on all
> digital platforms - not just DAB but also DTV and online/smartphone/tablet
> - currently 39.9% across the whole of the UK.
>
> David
> www.niocast.com
>
>
>
> On 9 Sep 2015, at 08:40, Two Lochs Radio <tlr at gairloch.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 08 September 2015 at 22:26 James Cridland <james at cridland.net> wrote:
>
> *In the London area, analogue listening is 45.9% - that's UNDER 50% - and
> digital radio listening is 47.3%, which is MORE than analogue radio.
> (There's "don't knows" to bear in mind, by the way). And if community radio
> was in RAJAR, your figures would count, but since you're not, they don't.*
>
>
> On the other hand, the ongoing cost for a community radio station to join
> the RAJAR survey exceeds the likely annual cost of broadcasting on
> small-scale DAB. Maybe we should just assume that the gap between the 45.9%
> and the 47.% is mostly down to Community Radio listening!
>
>
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