<div dir="ltr"><div>Ofcom has today published its annual Communications Market Report, the most comprehensive study of the UK’s TV, radio, broadband, telecoms and postal industries.</div><div><br></div><div>For the first time since 2008, when Ofcom started collecting data from the community radio sector, community radio revenues have increased. While average (mean) income is up by 0.8%, median income has increased by 6.9% since a year ago. The average community radio station income is £55,750, while median income is £35,750, up £2,500 on 2013.</div><div><br></div><div>Over the year the proportion of income from on-air advertising has fallen from 30% to 26%. However during this period the overall average level of income has grown, with donations, grants and ‘other’ income all going up.</div><div><br></div><div>Between 2011 and 2014 the percentage of income from SLAs (service level agreements) has fallen, from 10% to 4%, and the proportion of income from grants has fallen from 33% to 26%. The proportion of income from ‘other’ sources has grown progressively; from 18% in 2011 to 28% in 2014. ‘Other’ income includes revenue from the provision of training, fundraising and events, and merchandising income.</div><div><br></div><div>In a full 168-hour week, community radio, on average, broadcasts original programming for 55% of this time. It has a focus on volunteering and training, and last year each station engaged, on average, 87 volunteers, and trained 60 volunteers.</div><div><br></div><div>This year’s report also reveals that the UK is now a ‘smartphone society’, as record ownership and use have transformed the way people go online and communicate. For the first time, smartphones have overtaken laptops as UK internet users’ primary device.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/cmr/cmr15/UK_3.pdf">http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/cmr/cmr15/UK_3.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>\\</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Community Media Association</div><div>-- <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><span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" lang="EN-US">CMA AGM/Conference Saturday 12th September 2015<br><br></span></b></span>Canstream Internet Radio & 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></div></div>
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