Clueless Ofcom
"Utilising the commercial radio licensing regime for the purposes set out in this document also risks history repeating itself, whereby formerly illegal stations that were successful in obtaining licences sold them on to large commercial radio groups, which, in many cases, 'mainstreamed' the programming."
Well why did Ofcom let the licences be sold on? What is so difficult about making a licence non-transferable?
Local radio stations should be local and independent
"In 2006 Ofcom's field operations team responded to 70 safety-of-life cases (a significant increase from the 41 such cases reported in 2005)."
Would be interesting to know who had interference issues as much of the kit is professional equipment from the likes of Broadcast Warehouse. An FoI request could be revealing. Do suspect that the main driver is safety-of-profit complaints from the large commercial groups.
Pity that Ofcom cannot focus on issues such as the 0844 / 0870 / 0871 rip offs.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
