[cma-l] [!!! CAUTION !!!] update DAB

[Richard Berry]

When Ofcom talk about small commercial stations they are talking about the ones too small for the current DAB Multiplexes. For example, our local commercial station is Sun FM. They broadcast to Sunderland and surrounding towns, but the current local DAB multiplex covers everything from here to the Scottish Borders as it follows the coverage area for the Tyne and Wear ILR station. It's basically pointless for them being on that. So, a local Sunderland SSDAB suits their needs and ours. The size of their group is irrelevant. It's about coverage area and providing a digital route for all. This might mean that you will need to share a mux with local arch rivals, but you even have the opportunity to run the mux yourself and charge them rent.

Just a thought
Richard

From: cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk [mailto:cma-l-bounces at mailman.commedia.org.uk] On Behalf Of Canalside Community Radio Ltd
Sent: 17 July 2017 10:19
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Subject: [!!! CAUTION !!!] [cma-l] update DAB

Dear All (FAO - Mike / Nigel / David

I have found the section that aroused the 'been thinking'
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This study finally considers the possible extension of small scale small scale DAB to the whole of the UK. Our approach has been to group existing analogue Community radio and small commercial radio services by area, with a view to examining the technical feasibility of developing a frequency plan which would allow them to be carried on small scale DAB

I was clearly somewhat confused by the           '''and small commercial radio services'''       ?               I didn't write this, Ofcom did.
The thinking was the same as it has always been --- either one is a Community Broadcaster or a Commercial Broadcaster (you can't be both)      if Small Scale DAB was Community Radio FM/AM/Internet      then I just took it as read. No need to go scrolling through Bills or listening to debates.

As I put in one of my posts, I did ask a question to which there was no reply or answer. The question was :-     I don't think there are any (as such) small Commercial FM Stations ?  they don't exist. I use the analogy because in the case of selective memory loss, this was one of the original arguments in relation to restrictions. Commercial Stations claiming that they were '''small'''    '''tiny''''      and that their commercial viability was threatened. This was happening even though many of them were part of larger groups. These numbers have changed dramatically over the years, with nearly ALL Commercial Stations now part of bigger conglomerates.

So in a Nutshell and in relation to this whole debate, there are no small Commercial Stations, they may claim to be, but that's a matter of opinion.

Sorry to everyone for appearing to be argumentative, but I felt clarification was needed as I thought Small Scale DAB was for Small Scale FM/AM     ie:- Community Radio              I saw it as 'foot in the door' .... possibly the back door

Here endeth the debate, I'll go and sit in the naughty boys corner again and get on with some work as the Students have just arrived. Also, when you have a dug a big hole for yourself, as the saying says ''stop digging''    sadly I don't feel I am in a hole, anything but.

Let's have the discussion again in 12 months time and see how the land lies, there are only two options, it will either be all hunky dory in the garden or it will have gone slightly off-piste .... Trouble is it will be too late to get it back on-piste.

Onwards and Upwards.

Nick

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