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Community Radio - lookoutwales - 20-03-2024

Didn't know where to fit this so figured it might be worth starting off a new thread.

The 'new' BRMB - which coincidentally 'celebrated' the 50th anniversary of the original station last month - has been given a £1200 penalty for the numerous breaches of its broadcast licence when it was operating as Big City Radio.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/bulletins/content-sanctions-adjudications/decision-big-city-radio-cic 

The full 22-page judgement goes into a lot of legalities - and looks at precedent cases - but it does suggest that even management weren't sure if they were responsible for what was going out (and bearing in mind, this is the same ownership as the commercial Sunshine Radio)

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0037/280999/big-city-radio-sanction-decision.pdf 

I'm still not sure if they're being entirely truthful - there's only one 'specialist' local show on the schedule (the licence states it's meant to focus on the ethnic communities around Aston) and there's still a few identifiable syndicated shows at weekends.

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RE: Community Radio - Neil Jones - 20-03-2024

A lot of the recent bulletins about this sort of thing see Ofcom pulling up all these community stations because they promise the earth and deliver only most of it, then go cap in hand to Ofcom to get those promises reduced because they can't manage them. I think a lot of the community stations run on volunteers and that's why their promises go to crap.

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