[cma-l] Advice on original output

[Eddie Stuart]

Hi Amjid,

You write your Key Commitments, and Ofcom (hopefully) accept them - it's up to you what you put in them, I'm not aware of any hard and fast rule.

Until getting our own licence 2 years ago, we ran as a weekday evening only community opt-out from the local ILR station under their licence, so we only had 4 or 5 hours x 5 days maximum - and that's what our presenters' were used to providing for some 17 years.

We emphasised this in our CR application and have since expanded gradually to avoid a sudden large increase in commitment that we would have problems sustaining.

We use repeats & a sustaining service to fill the 24hrs, but neither count as original broadcasting, nor does our "The Week in Holyrood" brought in from outside.

Cheers,

Eddie

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On 30/09/16 17:45, Amjid Riaz wrote:
> Hi all
> Wonder if I might take some advice. Is there a minimum for original output per week. Currently we are mandated to provide 49 hours / wk (so that’s 7 live hours / day including weekends). This is proving quite stressful. Is that a standard expected of all stations? How do others manage?
>
> Regards
>
> Amjid Riaz
> Unity FM
> Birmingham
>
>
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