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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Grateful thanks to Jaqui and the CMA for organising the Ofcom DAB Presentation on Tuesday and for the copy of the report on the Brighton trial:<BR>
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<A href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/news/2013/12/small-low-cost-dab-transmission/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=small-low-cost-dab-transmission">http://www.commedia.org.uk/news/2013/12/small-low-cost-dab-transmission/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=small-low-cost-dab-transmission</A><BR><BR>
I was able to make the meeting and found it very informative, but it was noticeable that the people from Ofcom and the CMA together outnumbered the rest of us.<BR>
I think I counted representatives of four the currently-licensed 215 CR stations, of which I would think about 120 are within an easy train ride of London. <BR>
I wonder whether the small attendance was due to the level of promotion - we have here e-mail addresses for all the current CR stations - or time of year, location, or simply lack of interest?<BR>
Do we know how many CR operators would like to be on DAB if it were commercially and legally possible?<BR>
Looking at the technical and legislational hurdles that need to be overcome, I have my doubts that this will be a feasible proposition this side of Christmas.<BR>
2017.<BR>
As I said in another recent posting - I wonder how many more CR projects will have fallen by the wayside in the meantime.<BR>
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