<div dir="ltr">Hi Ray,<div><br></div><div>I completely understand (and agree to an extent).</div><div><br></div><div>At its inception it was a 9month trail, and its DCMS who have decided to extend it for an additional 2 years.</div><div><br></div><div>This is more so that the current stations dont fall off the trail whilst the government puts the legislation together to enable Small Scale DAB to happen.</div><div><br></div><div>No new multiplex licenses will be issued until that time, HOWEVER new services (stations) can appear on multiplexes if they have the space.</div><div><br></div><div>I was recently at the Digital Radio stakeholder meeting representing the CMA and put some of these questions direct to the DCMS.</div><div><br></div><div>Martin</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 March 2016 at 10:26, Ray Godby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ray.godby@hcrfm.co.uk" target="_blank">ray.godby@hcrfm.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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>
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