[cma-l] Ofcom: 10th March, DCMS: 11th March

Mon Mar 7 14:48:24 GMT 2016

Martin, et al,

This decision affects the whole radio industry. 

Firstly, small scale DAB operations based their business model on a 9 month trial. The calculation of ROI over nearly 3 years is very different from 9 months. 

The delay puts the licensing of small scale DAB very close to a potential round 4. So unless community licensing is concurrent with small scale DAB, stations will have to choose their platform without full knowledge of the other.

There are a number of commercial analogue stations which would love to have an affordable DAB solution. This delay is costing them audience share and revenue.   

Finally, what were they thinking! As this is a technical feasibility trial how is extending it to 3 years going to give a significantly better outcome? There’s only 5 things you can do in project management; hire more people, reduce the quality, alter the scope, find another way to achieve the same result or extend the time. 

Anyone of the other options I believe is preferable to extending the deadline. 

Kind Regards

Alan

Alan Coote

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Date:  Monday, 7 March 2016 at 09:30
To:  "cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk" <cma-l at mailman.commedia.org.uk>
Subject:  Re: [cma-l] Ofcom: 10th March, DCMS: 11th March

Hi Ray,

I completely understand (and agree to an extent).

At its inception it was a 9month trail, and its DCMS who have decided to extend it for an additional 2 years.

This is more so that the current stations dont fall off the trail whilst the government puts the legislation together to enable Small Scale DAB to happen.

No new multiplex licenses will be issued until that time, HOWEVER new services (stations) can appear on multiplexes if they have the space.

I was recently at the Digital Radio stakeholder meeting representing the CMA and put some of these questions direct to the DCMS.

Martin

On 4 March 2016 at 10:26, Ray Godby <ray.godby at hcrfm.co.uk> wrote:

Just the fact that if we had known that the trial for DAB was going on for 2 year and 9 months we would have applied. It makes the costing more reasonable for us and i am sure many other stations and do they think that its working due to extending the trial. And is it really right that just a few stations will have nearly three years to the exclusion of others.

On 3 Mar 2016 19:02, "CMA-L" <cma-l at commedia.org.uk> wrote:
The Community Media Association is meeting with Ofcom on Thursday 10th March 2016. Please detail any specific issues that you would like the CMA to raise with Ofcom using the form below:

http://bit.ly/cmaOfcom

As well as the extension to the small-scale DAB trial, the CMA will also discuss training and education initiatives with Ofcom on key commitments as mentioned in their statement issued today:

If the sector thinks that there are benefits from standardised record-keeping beyond what is currently required by Ofcom, it remains possible for the sector to organise this, perhaps via an umbrella organisation such as the CMA. We welcome the suggestion from the CMA to contribute to the development of a number of training and education initiatives around record-keeping under the new Key Commitments, and will explore this further with the CMA as part of our regular engagement programme with them.

And on Friday 11th March 2016 the CMA is meeting with the Department of Culture Media & Sport . Please detail any specific issues that you would like the CMA to raise with DCMS here.

http://bit.ly/cmaDCMS

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