<div dir="ltr"><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.6px;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" align="left">Ofcom today announced the award of three community radio licences in Wolverhampton, Coventry and Rutland.</p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.6px;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" align="left">Licences have been awarded for Gulshan Radio in Wolverhampton; Radio PANJ in Coventry; and BFBS Cottesmore and North Luffenham for the Kendrew Barracks in Rutland.</p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.6px;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" align="left">Community radio services are provided on a not-for-profit basis and focus on delivering specific social benefits to a particular local area or community of interest.</p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.6px;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" align="left"><strong style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none">Gulshan Radio (Black Country Community Development Limited)</strong><br>Contact name<strong style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none">:</strong><span class=""> </span>Gulshan Dhingra<br><a href="mailto:gulshandhingra3@googlemail.com" style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(153,0,204)"></a></p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.6px;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" align="left">Gulshan Radio will be a community radio service for the Asian communities of Wolverhampton.</p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.6px;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" align="left"><strong style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none">Radio Panj (Radio PANJ Limited)<span class=""> </span></strong><br>Contact: Jas Dhesi<br>Website:<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.radio5.org.uk/" style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(153,0,204)">www.radio5.org.uk</a></p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.6px;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" align="left">Radio PANJ will serve the Punjabi community in Coventry.</p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.6px;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" align="left"><strong style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none">BFBS Cottesmore and North Luffenham (BFBS Cottesmore and North Luffenham Limited)</strong><strong style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none"><span class=""> </span></strong><br>Contact: Chris Pearson<br>Website:<span class=""> </span><a href="http://www.bfbs.com/" style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px none;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(153,0,204)">www.bfbs.com</a></p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.6px;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" align="left">This station will serve the military community at Kendrew Barracks, Cottesmore.</p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px none;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.6px;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" align="left">Community radio licences are awarded for a five-year period.</p>More details: <a href="http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radio-broadcast-licensing/community-radio/current-licensees/awards-round-3/3-awards-jan-15">http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radio-broadcast-licensing/community-radio/current-licensees/awards-round-3/3-awards-jan-15</a><br><div><br>\\<br><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">Community Media Association<br>-- <br><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.commedia.org.uk/</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/community_media" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/community_media</a><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br><br>Canstream Internet Radio &amp; Video<br><a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.canstream.co.uk/</a><br><a href="https://twitter.com/canstream" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/canstream</a></div></div>
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