<div dir="ltr">My biggest concern with the trial as its less than a year, what is the trial trying to prove and how will it measure that? also whats next.. its going to be really bad and unfortunate for some of these trial holders (who dont have another license for example) if they have a great trial and want to carry on but Ofcom doesnt then do anything further.<div><br></div><div>Forgive me if I am wrong but I dont think Ofcom have published what they hope to achieve from the trial, whats next and what the timetable might be..</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 April 2015 at 13:08, Ian Hickling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:transplanfm@hotmail.com" target="_blank">transplanfm@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">As the trial was originated to allow access to DAB for Community Radio Licensees, I for one will be highly disappointed and probably quite verbal if this is seen to be taken over by the commercial interests.<br>Having been directly involved with 14 of the applicants and provided the technical input to their submissions, I have seen in the ones we have supported alone enough variety to cover the 10 available trial formats.<div>But unreserved compliments to Martin James and Rashid Mustapha and their colleagues at Ofcom both for persevering with the initiative - and clearly generating an excellent response.<br><br><div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:martin@martinsteers.co.uk" target="_blank">martin@martinsteers.co.uk</a><br>Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:20:32 +0100<br>To: <a href="mailto:alan.coote@5digital.co.uk" target="_blank">alan.coote@5digital.co.uk</a><br>CC: <a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a><br>Subject: Re: [cma-l] Fwd: Ofcom publishes applications for small scale DAB trials<div><div class="h5"><br><br><div dir="ltr">I imagine that Ofcom might want a variety of people community / commercial to test the water.<div><br></div><div>What has been slightly frustrating is that so many applications have ticked the confidentiality box for details of their application.</div><div><br></div><div>Celador application is for a single transmitter to cover Bristol.</div><div><br></div><div>UKRD one seems to be just to cover Start Cambridge, although they have selected type 3 "An SFN carrying multiple services
based on at least two transmitter sites with one of
them an on-channel repeater (OCR)."</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br><div>On 16 April 2015 at 12:13, Alan Coote <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.coote@5digital.co.uk" target="_blank">alan.coote@5digital.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15px">I see that UKRD and Celador have made applications, the former not a member of Radio Centre (publicly they fell out over Radio Centre’s push to DAB) and Celador presumably looking at the feasibility of Small Scale DAB for their Breeze brand which is on FM only.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15px">This raises interesting questions regarding the commercial verses community license policy which DCMS may apply to Small Scale DAB. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><br></div><div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15px">Kind Regards</div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:15px">Alan<br><br>Alan Coote<br>Executive Producer </span>Let’s Talk Business</p><br><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Email - </font><span style="color:blue;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><a href="mailto:alan.coote@5digital.co.uk" target="_blank">alan.coote@5digital.co.uk</a><br></span><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Phone - 0800 949 6655</font><br><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Mobile - 07801 518858</font><br><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Twitter - </font><a href="http://www.twitter.com/TheAlanCoote" style="color:blue;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15px" target="_blank">@TheAlanCoote</a><br><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Web - </font><font color="#0433ff" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><a href="http://www.5digital.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.5digital.co.uk</a><br></font><br></div></div></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15px"><div style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt;text-align:left;color:black;BORDER-BOTTOM:medium none;BORDER-LEFT:medium none;PADDING-BOTTOM:0in;PADDING-LEFT:0in;PADDING-RIGHT:0in;BORDER-TOP:#b5c4df 1pt solid;BORDER-RIGHT:medium none;PADDING-TOP:3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> "<a href="mailto:martin@martinsteers.co.uk" target="_blank">martin@martinsteers.co.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:martin@martinsteers.co.uk" target="_blank">martin@martinsteers.co.uk</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> "<a href="mailto:martin@martinsteers.co.uk" target="_blank">martin@martinsteers.co.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:martin@martinsteers.co.uk" target="_blank">martin@martinsteers.co.uk</a>>, "<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thursday, 16 April 2015 11:13<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk" target="_blank">cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [cma-l] Fwd: Ofcom publishes applications for small scale DAB trials<br></div><div><div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Very interesting and fantastic to see 51 applications for the trial, I do wonder if Ofcom will increase / extend the trail.</div><div><br></div><div>on a side note I have plotted all the applications onto map to see areas. This can be found here: <a href="http://goo.gl/7kZ15B" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/7kZ15B</a> (Please feel free to share.</div><div><br></div><div>NOTE the map is based on application address on the website and might not mean actual coverage or station address (Example there are 3 applications at BFBS).</div><div><br></div><br><div>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b>Ofcom Updates</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Updates@maillist.ofcom.org.uk" target="_blank">Updates@maillist.ofcom.org.uk</a>></span><br>Date: 16 April 2015 at 10:30<br>Subject: Ofcom publishes applications for small scale DAB trials<br>To: "<a href="mailto:martin@martinsteers.co.uk" target="_blank">martin@martinsteers.co.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:martin@martinsteers.co.uk" target="_blank">martin@martinsteers.co.uk</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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