[cma-l] Community radio: future licensing and technical policy

[Ian Hickling]

What a huge complicated document - I'm sure that'll put a lot of people off.
I was very flattered to have been mentioned at 3:32:

"We have also met with a community radio transmission provider and a group that wishes to apply for a licence."

But the request has been incorrectly interpreted:

"They urged us to allow applicants that are ready to start broadcasting quickly an opportunity to apply ahead of others."

"We are not including this suggested approach in this Consultation because it is potentially unfair on other applicants."
Not at all - the request was to allow groups who are clearly ready to go ahead to submit an Application as soon as it was completed, following which they would take their turn in the system.
We were careful to say that no preferential treatment was requested or expected.
The "unfairness" aspect is that those who have done all the hard work are delayed by an arbitrary process of being forced to wait for others who have not.


Ian Hickling

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Ofcom has published a review of its community radio licensing and technical policy<http://ofcom.cmail20.com/t/i-l-kktrujy-ptyuturk-h/>.

Ofcom has been awarding community radio licences for more than a decade, and there are now nearly 250 stations in the UK.  These stations are small, not-for-profit services which bring a range of benefits to their target communities, and are run with the help of volunteers.

As Ofcom comes to the end of its third round of community radio licensing, the regulator is seeking views on proposals to:

  *   run a short, focussed fourth round of community radio licensing; and
  *   revise their technical policy to allow improvements to coverage areas for community stations, taking into account individual stations' requirements.

Today's consultation closes on 22 December 2016.

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