Quoting a previous Sterling Times contribution:-

The Kabbary claim appear to be correct.

I've been amazed (as usual) watching the spin over this falling out with KAT.

Once again I have to feel sorry for IOMIB plc shareholder David Parr, who I believe also "helps" with the IOMIB plc websites (which one can only assume is how he always 'knows' when they've been updated and so publicises them accordingly). He appears to be a lone ranger galloping around the various forums trying to spin what's going on.

There's snippits of info coming out from Paul Rusling using his oconnor name, and then the main battleground is a 'Press Release' (no press organisation I know has received it) on the IOMIB website from Rodney Collins (but was it actually composed by him?).

My office has tried to get an official statement from Dr Kabbary about all this. We only have a whole load of off-the-record stuff so far about his 291,667 shares in IOMIB plc that were the down-payment for a CFA. I can't make too must sense of it all. Apparently a fee might be involved for an on-camera interview. D'oh! Should I pay it?

I'm not sure how any serious investor / advertiser / sponsor would view all of this anorak-biased activity from what is supposed to be taken seriously as a new and viable national radio service for the UK. I can see GCap, Emap, Chrysalis, GMG, etc., etc., all looking on and wishing they could do the same to help their credibility.

Maybe the new Jazz station from GCap will get delayed for 15 years, GCap will publicly fall out with transmitter part suppliers (why is it that GCap et al never actually discuss and debate their transmitter parts in the public eye? Surely they should be! No wonder anoraks hate them so much.), spend other people's money right left and centre on this and that (especially when it comes to boats and ships), talk on anorak forums about how hard done by they are and how anoraks are to blame for whatever their current ills might be, let their company websites disappear because of the cost of running them, and then have members of their board resigning and then being re-appointed at random times due to 'posting errors'.

No wonder GCap isn't getting anywhere in radio, eh?
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