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British Ofcom dings West Midlands AM station for "blurring" ad with content
The British government released its decision today to sanction an Asian community oriented AM radio station for not keeping its advertising and content sufficiently separate. West Midlands area Radio...
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Websites catching up to radio as first weather news source for British
Ofcom's latest poll on how Britons get their weather news The latest poll taken by the United Kingdom’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) indicates that almost as many Britons get their updates about...
View ArticleUK approves conflict resolution community radio for Essex
The United Kingdom’s broadcasting regulator has given the green light to a new community radio station in the Essex county area. It’s SAFE radio for young listeners in Grays and the outer regions of...
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Ofcom puts another nail in local radio's coffin
Commercial radio broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic are no doubt praising the United Kingdom’s move to allow licensed stations to cut down on their news and local fare. “Changes in the...
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Less "specialist jazz" for London "smooth" radio?
Lynn Parsons of Smooth Radio London It will be interesting to see what Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s broadcast regulatory agency, says about GMG Radio, aka “Smooth Radio” of London and North West’s...
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75 or so words you really ought to think about before you say them on UK radio
source: kitschulike.com Ofcom (the United Kingdom’s equivalent of the FCC) has just published a new survey of which words British radio listeners and TV watchers don’t like, or sort of don’t like, or...
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Radio Caroline Pursuing a Legit License
On the heels of Radio Caroline’s 47th birthday last week, the New York Times published a story reporting on the outfit’s attempt to garner an actual license to broadcast in the UK. Caroline is...
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UK report: community radio stations that target specific audiences do better?
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulation agency Ofcom has published its annual report (.pdf) on the state of community radio, and the figures indicate that income for UK community outlets has...
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UK revises short term radio license procedures for Ramadan
One of the more interesting permits that Britain’s radio/telecom regulator offers radio broadcasters is short term restricted service licenses (SRSLs for you acronym lovers). They’re reserved for...
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Community radio will come to Channel Islands
Wikipedia The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulatory agency says that it has authorized the licensing of community radio stations on the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes the islands of Alderney...
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Belfast gets community FM radio service for “over 55s”
A scene from the BBC 2 “Belfast FM” series. Are these muppets over 55? Northern Irelanders in the second half of their fifty-something years will soon have their own FM community radio station. The...
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UK expands community radio in Northern England
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator has opened up sections of Northern England to applications for FM community radio stations. These regions include West and South Yorkshire, Humberside, and...
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Report: new UK community radio station launched (on average) every 13 days
Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator, has released its annual report for April 2012 through March 2013. This paragraph caught my eye: Over 200 community radio stations are now broadcasting...
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UK media report: total community radio revenue up, but average income down
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator Ofcom has released a new report on UK media. Among the findings: the average income for a community radio license in 2012 declined by 5.4% to £57,000, despite...
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Ethnic minorities: Britain’s vanguard online radio market
The summary of Ofcom’s new study on minorities and mobile gadgets reads as follows: “Ethnic minority groups are . . . more likely to have home broadband and a mobile phone, although they are less...
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United Kingdom opens second Community Radio Fund window
Round two of applications for the United Kingdom’s Community Radio Fund 2013/14 will begin on Wednesday October 9 and will close about a month later on November 6. The first round concluded in...
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Welsh modern rock station petitions to switch to “male focused” format
South Wales commercial FM station holder Nation Radio Ltd. has petitioned the United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator for a format change. It has informed Ofcom that it wants to alter its “Character of...
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“The Cat” of South Cheshire gets community radio FM license
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator Ofcom has awarded a five year FM license to a South Cheshire area community radio station appropriately named “The Cat.” I love this station. The Cat plays...
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UK ponders 12 year terms for “re-advertised” analog radio stations
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator Ofcom is considering letting “re-advertised” analog radio station licenses extend for twelve years, the maximum possible license length. The current policy is...
View ArticleEast and West Midlands, UK: community radio signals available
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator, Ofcom, just put out an invitation to apply for community radio licenses in West and East Midlands. These are official regions situated (as you might guess)...
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Lincolnshire, UK gets festival oriented community radio station
Endeavor Radio at a 2012 Sibsey village fete. Ofcom has been busy of late, giving permanent community radio licenses to three United Kingdom media operations. One goes to Endeavor Radio of the...
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Belfast’s Blast 106 proposes more music, more variety for students
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator Ofcom has opened a consultation for community radio station Blast 106 of Belfast, which wants to change some of its “key commitments.” These boil down to the...
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Despite the Internet, the UK will still regulate radio formats
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator Ofcom is running a consultation about the state of analog radio formats in that country. In the UK radio licensees must file a “character of service”...
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UK LGBT community radio station seeks mission overhaul
LGBT listener oriented Chorley.fm of Lancashire county is having a bit of an identity crisis. The community radio station, located in the market town of Chorley in the United Kingdom’s northwest, says...
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UK to community radio: sign up for a digital experiment
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator has announced trials to help smaller, community based radio stations access the UK’s digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system. According to Ofcom, nearly half...
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Dozens of UK community radio stations apply for digital experiment
The news from Norway is that the country plans to dump FM and go all digital by 2017. The United Kingdom isn’t quite ready to do the same, but over fifty radio outlets have responded to the UK’s...
View ArticleUK runs YouTube draw for short term radio licenses for Ramadan
Ramadan is coming, and various broadcasters in the United Kingdom want short term radio licenses for the month of fasting, which begins on Wednesday June 17 and ends on Friday July 17. So how is the...
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UK to Lancashire community radio station: stay with LGBT format
An interesting response from United Kingdom broadcast regulator to Chorley.fm of Lancashire’s petition to modify its LGBT oriented format. Ofcom has turned the request down. Chorley had asked that it...
View ArticleUK announces 1st winners for “small scale” digital radio trials
Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator, has handed out temporary licenses to ten applicants for the agency’s experiment with “small scale DAB.” These winners will receive licenses to a...
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KUSP’s day of decision; Devizes radio is 20; more community radio for SE England
Community radio station KUSP-FM in Santa Cruz, California has posted the date for its next Board of Directors meeting: July 13 at the Aptos Community Foundation building at 6 PM. I presume that it is...
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Report: London is pirate radio heaven (or hell, depending on your viewpoint)
The United Kingdom is so famous for its pirate radio stations that Hollywood made a movie about one. But as always the government is quite dour about these unlicensed signals, and has shut 400 of them...
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ARTxFM to broadcast soon; Linx radio gets Funk Bus; Soma.fm launches Thistle
Louisville, Kentucky’s business paper says that one of our favorite Internet radio stations is going to fire up its Low Power FM signal in the fall. ARTxFM won its Federal Communications Commission...
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Unpacking London’s pirate radio problem
I’ve been thinking a lot about reports that the United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator has shut down 400 pirate radio stations over the last two years, many of them situated in London. Well over a third...
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UK classical public radio strong despite decline on TV; South Florida...
A somewhat discouraging report, classical music-wise, from the United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator, titled “Public Service Broadcasting in the Internet Age.” It concludes that since the government...
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Funky SX! UK gives deejay school community radio license
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator has awarded four more community radio licenses, and one of them goes to the Funky Academy, aka Funky SX. Ofcom says that the school will (government-speak...
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United Kingdom: London could save “up to”£1m by smashing pirate radio
coldwarradios.blogspot.com The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator says Londoners could save “up to” £1 million by cracking down on that city’s remaining pirate radio stations. As we’ve noted...
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United Kingdom celebrates ten years of community radio
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its community radio licensing drive. Ofcom says that since September of 2004 it has awarded 230 community radio station...
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Platform B! UK licenses “pirate” community radio station for Brighton youth
The United Kingdom’s broadcast regulator (Ofcom) has authorized six more community radio licenses, all in southeast England. The radio project that will serve the Brighton area seems especially...
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Tour East London’s Pirate Radio Scene in “Drowned City”
I’m delighted to keep stumbling upon video artifacts of pirate radio, like the 1970s Portland public access footage and 1990 shortwave pirate documentary I recently shared. Next up I’ve found a more...
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