well aint that fascinating...<br><br>Sion starts so well - but in the last sentence that word 'commercial' pops up - weirdly even. <br><br>Be good to enquire what was meant.<br><br>The clue is in that 2nd statement - a new tier of ultra local commercial radio. You what? Where did that come from? If our commercial comrades are charging towards conglomeration and other forms of de-localising their output, who on earth thinks that smaller commercial stations are viable? If this is pursued - we'll be fighting for scraps of frequency left over from the commercial table yet again.<br>
<br>Am I over-reacting?<br><br>bests<br><br>Phil<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/21 CMA-L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Oral Answers to Questions - Culture, Media and Sport: Digital Radio<br>
Switchover (20 Jul 2009)<br>
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Siôn Simon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, DCMSt; Birmingham,<br>
Erdington, Labour):<br>
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"We are ensuring with radio switchover that community organisations<br>
and small community radio stations, which might currently be able to<br>
broadcast for only two weeks a year, will inherit the FM spectrum<br>
currently taken up by big regional and national FM broadcasters.<br>
Precisely such small, commercial, local community organisations will<br>
be able to flourish in the digital future in a way that they are<br>
technologically constrained from doing now."<br>
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<a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2009-07-20a.561.3&s=%22community+radio%22#g562.0" target="_blank">http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2009-07-20a.561.3&s=%22community+radio%22#g562.0</a><br>
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Siôn Simon (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, DCMSt; Birmingham,<br>
Erdington, Labour):<br>
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"The "Digital Britain" White Paper was clear that analogue radio, via<br>
FM, will continue beyond 2015. After the digital radio upgrade is<br>
completed, the vacated FM spectrum will be allocated to community<br>
radio stations and a new tier of ultra-local commercial radio."<br>
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<a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2009-07-20a.564.0&s=%22community+radio%22#g564.2" target="_blank">http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2009-07-20a.564.0&s=%22community+radio%22#g564.2</a><br>
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