Anorak Nation: Discussion: What choice Eric?

As I said Eric, what choice. Apart from community licence's (one returned and one bankrupt project) the main licenced Regional / local stations are all POP. Newstyle is ok if you like Afro-Carribbean (the odd track is ok) - Smooth / Galaxy / Heart / BRMB / Kerrang and that is no choice, mainly playing 80's to today with Smooth and Heart playing an occasional 70's track (Smooth told Roger Day they are going for a younger market?? - how they are staying with their licence is beyond me considering the argument about the London and Manchester licences)

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I would love somebody to tell me what choice I have in Brum on my 'local' stations.

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My understanding is that OFCOM takes into account the choices of programming when awarding licences. That's why a company has to go back to OFCOM when they wish to vary the type of services they originally applied for. As has been said by others, we've enough of the same bland middle of the road stuff done by companies who play it safe. GMG took over Jazz Fm knowing what the conditions were, so I have no sympathy with them on this. Mind you, maybe they just thought OFCOM would roll over the way they have in the past - in which case, they lost the bet!

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Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Anorak Nation] This makes for very interesting reading

Eric Tesug <...> said:
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/smoothfmformat/statement/
It shouldn't be the job of govenment departments to dictate the programme format of commercial radio.
Those decisions should be taken by the companies themselves based on the demand for different programme formats and their commercial viability.
I think it is crazy that licence holders should be lumbered with a programme format that just does not work just because the original licence applicant gave undertaking to broadcast a set number of hours of x,y or z.
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