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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Be careful of this. This press
release did not come from DCMS.</span></p>
<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 18/2/11, F a r i <i><dontzzzthroughit@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: F a r i <dontzzzthroughit@yahoo.com><br>Subject: Re: [cma-l] Vaizey confirms no FM switch-off<br>To: "CMA-L" <cma-l@commedia.org.uk><br>Date: Friday, 18 February, 2011, 13:23<br><br><div id="yiv984031903"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top">Sense does trickle upwards, then.<br>Super news.<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.faribradley.co.uk" style="color: rgb(64, 127, 0); font-weight: bold;">Fari sound</a><br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/%7Er/SixPillarsToPersia/%7E6/2"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/SixPillarsToPersia.2.gif" alt="Six Pillars to Persia" style="border: 0pt none ;"></a><br><img alt=""><br><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(64, 64, 255);"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span></span><img alt=""><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 2/18/11, CMA-L <i><cma-l@commedia.org.uk></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: CMA-L <cma-l@commedia.org.uk><br>Subject: [cma-l] Vaizey confirms no FM switch-off<br>To:
cma-l@commedia.org.uk, comradio-l@commedia.org.uk<br>Date: Friday, February 18, 2011, 8:39 AM<br><br><div class="yiv984031903plainMail">Source: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.6750.5">http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.6750.5</a><br><br>Broadcast Minister Ed Vaizey has confirmed to a group of MP’s that the<br>FM waveband will not be switched off and will remain as one of a<br>number of multi platform transmission options for local commercial<br>radio.<br><br>He also confirmed that he was prepared to take a look at the recent<br>decision by Ofcom to limit licence renewal terms for local commercial<br>stations to just seven years.<br><br>He advised MP’s present that the 2015 switchover date will only<br>proceed if certain criteria are met and the listeners are clearly<br>behind the policy.<br><br>Almost twenty MP’s from across the UK met with the Minister, and the<br>Secretary of State who was
also present, to express their
concerns<br>about the implications of Government policy on local radio and<br>expressed strong support for their respective local stations and their<br>desire to see them prosper and flourish in the future.<br><br>The Minister confirmed that FM will remain as a broadcast platform for<br>years to come and also, in response to questioning from MP’s about the<br>recently imposed seven year licence term on commercial licence<br>renewals, agreed that he would review the matter and would welcome the<br>input of MP’s in reviewing this matter sometime in the next twelve<br>months or so.<br><br>William Rogers, Chief Executive of UKRD, said he was delighted with<br>the outcome of the meeting and expressed his thanks and appreciation<br>to all the MP’s who attended to press the case for “critically<br>important reviews” in key areas of policy.<br><br>“That the Minister has confirmed that FM will remain for years to<br>come, especially for those
stations with no DAB future, is of course<br>welcome but what is also really helpful, and something we should all<br>welcome as an industry, was his open and constructive response to the<br>question raised by MP’s to review the length of licences for local<br>commercial stations which were in effect cut from 12 to 7 years in the<br>latest Ofcom review,” said Rogers.<br><br>“MP’s were encouraged to make representations on this matter and,<br>indeed, to even propose a policy position in this respect and we will<br>be working with them over the coming months to ensure that this issue<br>remains firmly on the Governments agenda of things that need to be<br>looked at again.”<br><br>“We need a dynamic and vibrant local radio sector with a bright and<br>genuinely multi-platform digital future. Of course DAB is one of many<br>such platforms but the prescriptive, poorly planned and inappropriate<br>imposition of this single platform simply gets in
the way of what<br>consumer choice is all about.”<br><br>Source: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.6750.5">http://radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.6750.5</a><br><br>\\<br><br>Community Media Association<br>-- <br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/">http://www.commedia.org.uk/</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/community_media">http://twitter.com/community_media</a><br>Facebook Fans: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/cog8n5">http://bit.ly/cog8n5</a><br>Canstream Internet Radio: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.canstream.co.uk/">http://www.canstream.co.uk/</a><br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Reply - <a rel="nofollow">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a><br><br>The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the Community Media Association - <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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