[cma-l] Region 10 Licensing

[Neil Munday]

Hi Ian

Keep me advised anyway, if Ofcom are short of people to train to do this
investigative work - could be an interesting job!
Neil

On Monday, 8 February 2016, Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com> wrote:

> If it were not for the North Sea Pirates such as Caroline and London -
> then I agree Neil.
> But they weren't illegal at all.
> They were stopped by a designer piece of spoiler legislation.
> Apart from the use of the token word "pirate", there is no comparison
> with the current land-based illegal broadcasters who are knowingly and
> deliberately contravening established law - sorry.
> I'm aware that some city pirates are in fact performing a useful community
> service - but he fact remains that they are still breaking the law and as
> such are by their own decision the enemy.
> The orientation of the fence is very clear.
>
> *Ian Hickling*
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> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:01:13 +0000
> From: neilm at susyradio.com
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> Subject: Re: [cma-l] Region 10 Licensing
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> I acknowledge that the comment is going to come from somewhere that if it
> was not for illegal pirates we would not have radio today! However that was
> then this is now and there is a way for people to apply and successfully
> win local legal frequencies. So on this basis and I cannot speak for my
> colleagues who I'm sure have individual personal views - I'm in!
>
> Neil Munday
>
>
> On Monday, 8 February 2016, Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','transplanfm at hotmail.com');>> wrote:
>
> Following Ofcom's recent updating of its CR Timetable:
>
> http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radio-broadcast-licensing/community-radio/apply-for-licence/timetable
> - here's a relevant train of thought.
> I was in South London on Friday, where we are building new studios for an
> International broadcaster, when I had to move my car at about 2 o'clock so
> that others could leave the rather small car park.
> I put the radio on while I was waiting and found 8 strong illegal
> broadcasters within a few seconds - most of which I recognised from my own
> and others' previous scans as regular offenders.
> Why are they still there - in some cases for well over a decade?
> Because in Ofcom's judgement they aren't actually damaging any licensed
> transmissions.
> Which means in essence that they are occupying frequencies which are
> available for legitimate use,
> So as Ofcom is going to be inviting Applications soon for CRs within the
> M25, what is it going to be saying about FM availability?
> Is this not a God-given opportunity to give illegal broadcasters a final
> chance to become legitimate or be wiped out?
> The phrase "Hunted Down to Extinction" is the one I'd like to use.
> Ofcom has precise and efficient detection equipment at Baldock and
> elsewhere, has all these illegal operators documented, knows where they are
> - and in many cases knows the identity of individual perpetrators.
> It is also relatively simple to locate their transmitters and identify
> their supporters, funders and advertisers.
> Let's have a proper effective campaign to tell illegal broadcasters in
> London to Shape Up or Ship Out.
> It doesn't require any action by Parliament or any new legislation - just
> the enforcement of the Laws we have in place already to remove offenders by
> the people who are tasked with doing that.
> We have ANPR units that automatically identify and deal with vehicles
> without road tax and insurance that are cheating us and the Government out
> of valuable revenue - so why not a similar process for these perpetual and
> equally dangerous law-breakers?
> I'm going to put this formally to Government, to the DCMS and to Ofcom.
> Who's with me?
>
> *Ian Hickling*
> Partner
>
> <http://www.transplanuk.com/>
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