In article <32de1427fb024a460d5aa8305c55fb0d@jiglu-wc>, ... (Neil Gates) wrote:

It's not just UK advertisers who would be hounded by The office of
media restriction and censorship (Ofcom) When Singapore Airlines
advertised on Caroline 558 in the 1980's they were threatened with
the withdrawal of landing rights at Heathrow if their involvment
with Caroline continued.

That would probably have been through a UK Office which would have fallen under the MOA – the sales person must have been good to keep that from the airline, who was it I want to meet him NOW! :-)

However both LBP and offshore stations should be able to find any
amount of advertising from for example the millions of internet
based businesses around the world who would not be bothered by
Ofcom's intimidation or the station could even start it's own
internet based business with heavy on air promotion and derive
revenue that way.

Actually that make half-sense. The only audience would be older people who, on here at least, are crying out for a station. The content would need to be very 50/60s MOR and the net services would need to be US, a bit like that nice guy Michael who got around the Imperial Measures ruling by setting up A Quarter Of in the US selling back to the UK.

Eric