Tell me again why we’re listening to AM and FM radio frequencies? Radio has lost the ability to seriously affect opinion, and we certainly lost the entertainment value when the radio spectrum was sold over to one conglomerate and a handful of other advertising companies. There is very little use for radio these days.
Britain knows it.
The regulator for British broadcasting, Ofcam, has produced a statement calling for the end of public radio in the UK:
Neither television nor the movies could do it, but regulators in the United Kingdom are considering the end of AM and FM radio on the grounds that they have both outlived their usefulness, and digital services could make better use of the spectrum occupied by both bands.
Ofcom, the U.K.�s communications regulator, published a statement that said many of the AM and FM licenses are up for renewal and an automatic renewal could tie up very valuable slices of spectrum for 24 years, so the time is right for a long-term decision.
You see, in the UK, radio is much more real resource belonging to the “public” in all senses of the word, both for the good and the detriment.
Ofcom sees that there is more information that could be broadcast using the same frequencies –
“FM radio re-uses a limited number of frequencies in a patchwork across the U.K. to deliver around 300 local BBC and commercial services and five UK-wide networks,” said the Ofcom statement.
“Any alternative uses for those frequencies would require large chunks of that spectrum to be freed-up simultaneously—something a rolling re-licensing process does not allow for,” the statement continued.
Oh, we’ll be hearing more about this soon enough. Could you imagine the radio conglomerate known as Clear Channel is writing new checks to the Democratic leadership as we speak?
Too bad the Dems all remember Clear Channel’s allegiance to the Republicans…
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