Re: DRM at 23 kbps

In article <qMmdnR4kOuSOosnbnZ2dnUVZ8saonZ2d@xxxxxx>, Martin <?@?.?>
writes
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:

Ignoring the comparison with staff, studio costs etc, the costs
you've quoted above work out in annual terms as:

£120/hr = £1.05 million
£240/hr = £2.1 million
£360/hr = £3.2 million

These are hardly insignificant.

True they are not insignificant, but the operating costs of the
station will not be 90% electricity for the transmitter and 10%
everything else;


I never said they would be.


just how many skilled people can you employ with
only 36GBP per hour?


I was told that it costs £1.08 million (£90k per month) to transmit an AM
station nationally, so as the national average wage is somewhere around £24k,
you could employ 45 people for that (ignoring employers NI).


Remember you have to pay employers NI,
insurance, corporation tax, building rent, lighting, heating, etc.
Employing someone costs a lot more than you pay them.


I'm not denying this, but you can't ignore sums of money as high as £1m or
more.

It costs the BBC £7m per annum to transmit a single TV channel on Freeview.
That's a lot of money whichever way you look at it.


Tx Engineers go through 3-4 years worth of on the job training
and attend 3 or more courses at the BBC's training centre
at Wood Norton. Each course is 6 weeks were they learn everything
from Medium Wave to SHF transmission.


Thought they were all Crown grid whatsisname now?.. Or soon to all be
Arquiva....


Salary is 27k approx for a Tx Engineer to £30K approx for a Senior
Transmitter Engineer. This is without overtime, standby pay,
company car/van ect.

Not a fortune really...



Martin


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Tony Sayer

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