Radio Authority Awards Local Licences

The Radio Authority (RA) has awarded small-scale local radio licences for Tayside to the following two groups:

• Discovery FM (Tony Dewhurst, 01942 777 666): a fluid mix of easy listening and soft adult contemporary artists together with locally focused speech content targeting the 35-64 year old market with a proposed music to speech ratio of 75:25, for the City of Dundee and immediate environs.
• RNA FM (Malcolm Finlayson, 01382 660 111): a generalised music-based service that would contain health care information and advice, community announcements and news of interest to the public, and promote education, the local economy, and voluntary organisations, for the town of Arbroath.

This is the first time that the RA has awarded a full-term, eight year local radio licence to a hospital based group (RNA).

Both licences come into effect as soon as the stations are ready to begin broadcasting.

The RA is also advertising new small-scale FM licences within Cambridgeshire. An applicant may apply for one licence, or for more than one, but must indicate which particular location(s) it proposes to cover.

Each licence will run for eight years from the date the station begins broadcasting. The closing date for applications is 13 October 1998. A non-refundable application fee of £750 is payable for each application submitted.

Radio Authority: 0171 430 2724