<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.6px">Ofcom awarded six community radio licences in June 2016. The licences are for services in the south east England region (outside the M25).</p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.6px"><strong style="line-height:19.6px;vertical-align:top;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Applicants awarded a licence</strong><br></p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.6px">Ofcom has made a licence award to each of the following:</p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.6px">These services will be licensed for a period of five years from the date of their launch. All six services will be licensed to broadcast on FM.</p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.6px"><u><span style="line-height:19.6px">Angel Radio, </span><span style="line-height:19.6px">Portsmouth and Havant</span><span style="line-height:19.6px"> </span></u></p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.6px">Angel Radio will be a service for the over-60s in Portsmouth and Havant. Ofcom noted that the application was from a well-established group which is already providing a community radio service in the Havant area only, and was satisfied that it had demonstrated its ability to maintain a service covering a larger area. <span style="line-height:19.6px">Angel Radio currently broadcasts a community radio service to Havant. The station will surrender its existing licence when the new licence commences.</span></p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.6px"><u>BFBS Portsmouth, Portsmouth</u><br>BFBS Portsmouth will be a service for the armed forces community based in and around HM Naval Base in Portsmouth. Ofcom noted that the applicant company has existing assets and stable financial backing, and is allied with a number of other military-focused radio services around the UK.</p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.6px"><u>Awaaz FM, Southampton</u><br>Awaaz FM will be for ethnic minority communities in Southampton, and in particular those resident in the more deprived wards of the city. Ofcom considered that the applicant’s emphasis on providing output in a variety of different languages, including Urdu, Punjabi, Pashtun and Hindi, would help to cater for the tastes and interests of people in the area and broaden choice in relation to existing services.</p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.6px"><u>Fiesta FM, Southampton</u><br>Fiesta FM will be a service for Hispanic people living in Southampton, primarily those with Latin American, Spanish or Portuguese heritage. These communities are not the focus of any existing radio services, and thus Ofcom was of the view that Fiesta FM would clearly broaden choice, particularly in light of its intention to provide programming in target community languages. Ofcom considered that the applicant would provide social gain for its target community through its proposals to encourage social inclusion, to act as a platform for social welfare campaigns, and to offer training to volunteers.</p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.6px"><u style="line-height:19.6px">Wey Valley Radio, Alton, Hampshire</u><br></p><p style="vertical-align:top;margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;line-height:19.6px">Wey Valley Radio will be a service for people living in the town of Alton, Hampshire and the surrounding villages. Ofcom was satisfied that the radio broadcasting experience of members of the applicant group, and the low cost business plan set out in the application, would help the service in this rural area to be maintained.</p></div><u style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.6px">Winchester Radio, Winchester, Hampshire</u><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.6px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.6px">Winchester Radio will be for people aged over 50 in Winchester and the surrounding area. Ofcom noted the considerable experience of the applicant group members in both hospital radio and fund raising, which Ofcom considered would help enable Winchester Radio to maintain its proposed service (1a).</span><div><font color="#000000" face="Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.6px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.6px"><a href="http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radio-broadcast-licensing/community-radio/community-radio-regions/east-england1/six-awards-june-2016">Source</a>.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.6px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.6px">\\</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Open Sans, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19.6px"><br clear="all"></span></font><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><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><br></div><div><b style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><font size="4" color="#0000ff">Book your tickets now for the Community Media Conference 2016: <a href="http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2016CMAConf</a></font></b><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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