Ofcom Update: Ofcom publishes simplified analogue commercial radio Formats

Ofcom has today published the new simplified Formats which form part of analogue (FM and AM) commercial radio licences.  Formats have been streamlined to provide licensees with greater flexibility while continuing to secure the overall character of each station.  This follows Ofcom's Future of Radio project, which resulted in a new approach to regulating analogue commercial radio that recognises changes in the market arising from the growth of the internet and the move towards digital radio.

 

The updated Formats, listed by station, can be found on the Ofcom website at: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolicensing/amfm/analogue-main.htm

 

The Future of Radio project also resulted in new guidelines for the provision of local content on analogue commercial radio, published in February 2008. These guidelines allow stations to apply to co-locate, and share programming, with other stations.   

 

Ofcom has agreed a number of such requests, which can be found at:  http://www.ofcom.org.uk/radio/ifi/rbl/formats/formats/fc    

 

...........................................................................

Please do not respond to this email. To remove yourself from this update list, use the online forms: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/subscribe/select_list.htm.

 

******************************************************************************************************************
Ofcom is the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, with responsibilities across television, radio, telecommunications and wireless communications services.

For further details and to register for automatic updates from Ofcom on key publications and other developments, please visit www.ofcom.org.uk

This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed.

If you have received this email in error please notify the originator of the message. This footer also confirms that this email message has been scanned for the presence of computer viruses.

Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifies and with authority, states them to be the views of Ofcom.
******************************************************************************************************************