Re: UK radio companies call for AM and FM switch-off by 2015

In article <5efhisF36l4ocU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Silk <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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tony sayer wrote:
In article <5ed3lvF36lpgeU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Silk <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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tony sayer wrote:

Have you any idea on how much it would cost for a small local station
say somewhere out in the home counties with say a couple of hundreds of
watts ERP on FM to say 128 K on DAB on a local MUX?..
No. Enlighten us. And I meant real costs, not licensing and paperwork.

OK .. the licensing and paperwork are around negligible!.

For FM anything from bugger all if you have your building roof
sufficiently high!

If you have to rent a site and pay for a landline or radio link
£3K to £15K maybe 20 in a large City

typical DAB carriage charges..

DAB at 128 K £60K

DAB at 192 K £90K

all per annum..

You haven't explained why DAB should be more expensive. It just doesn't
make sense.



Its the nature of how its all set up. Take for instance a couple of
local stations round this way. Ones a community station they own their
TX and get their site very cheap. They only need to pay someone to
maintain it for them. Thats it. their own system..

The other a smallish ILR, owns their TX pays a site rental for equipment
space and space on a mast for aerial rental, and a few quid for someone
to cover it in case it goes down anytime. Thats it.

To go DAB you have to pay the MUX owner to be on their MUX you send your
Audio via line to wherever they encode it all, and then off to the TX
site or sites concerned. They have a monopoly on the access as to who's
going to be in their DAB club

The crucial point is that you cannot as yet have your own radio channel
for your OWN MUX as thats not the way DAB is planned and is set up.

And the MUX operator as they have the monopoly can charge as much as
they see fit. With FM and your own frequency you have more choice and
control over that..for most all stations..
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Tony Sayer


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