[cma-l] Joint PRS/PPL licences

[Associated Broadcast Consultants]

In my opinion the £600-£700 minimum fee is questionable and ought to be
challenged for them to justify why their admin costs are so high.

Ideally the fee ought to be wholly dependent on revenue -> no revenue, no
fee.

Glyn

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On 30 June 2016 at 11:54, Alex Gray, Two Lochs Radio <tlr at gairloch.co.uk>
wrote:

> We received an interesting letter today from PPL giving notice of
> termination of our current licence on 31 Dec because they are proposing to
> come up with a joint PPL/PRS licence for community radio from that date.
>
>
>
> This should make things easier for everyone and reduce the admin burden,
> which is good news, and I guess will be generally welcomed.
>
>
>
> The letter says PPL and PRS will be consulting with the sector over the
> plan - I would urge CMA and anyone else able to respond to press for the
> new minimum fee to be no more than the present minimum fee of either *one*
> of the two bodies.
>
>
>
> It seems to me if the new system will reduce their admin costs, there
> should be no need for more than the equivalent of one current minimum fee
> to cover that, especially as no doubt nowadays more of the admin is done at
> low cost by IT than it used to be, rather than an army of clerks.
>
>
>
> Alex
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