<p dir="ltr">Just the fact that if we had known that the trial for DAB was going on for 2 year and 9 months we would have applied. It makes the costing more reasonable for us and i am sure many other stations and do they think that its working due to extending the trial. And is it really right that just a few stations will have nearly three years to the exclusion of others.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 3 Mar 2016 19:02, "CMA-L" <<a href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The Community Media Association is meeting with Ofcom on Thursday 10th March 2016. Please detail any specific issues that you would like the CMA to raise with Ofcom using the form below:<br></div><div><br></div><a href="http://bit.ly/cmaOfcom" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/cmaOfcom</a><div><br></div><div>As well as the extension to the small-scale DAB trial, the CMA will also discuss training and education initiatives with Ofcom on key commitments as mentioned in their <a href="http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/key-commitments/statement/" target="_blank">statement</a> issued today:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">If the sector thinks that there are benefits from standardised record-keeping beyond what is currently required by Ofcom, it remains possible for the sector to organise this, perhaps via an umbrella organisation such as the CMA. We welcome the suggestion from the CMA to contribute to the development of a number of training and education initiatives around record-keeping under the new Key Commitments, and will explore this further with the CMA as part of our regular engagement programme with them.</span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div>And on Friday 11th March 2016 the CMA is meeting with the Department of Culture Media & Sport . Please detail any specific issues that you would like the CMA to raise with DCMS here.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://bit.ly/cmaDCMS" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/cmaDCMS</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>\\\</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><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>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></div></div>
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