The Community DAB Handbook
Table of Contents
Abbreviations and acronyms
1. Introduction
2. What is DAB?
- Background to DAB
- ODR project and small-scale DAB
3. Why community ownership?
- Community business principles
- Community Media Charter
4. Regulatory framework
- Broadcasting Acts 1990 and 1996
- Communications Act 2003
- Broadcasting (Radio Multiplex Services) Act 2017
- Small-scale Radio Multiplex and Community Digital Radio Order 2019
- Ofcom approach to regulation
5. Building a consortium
- Key partners and stakeholders
- Consultation and engagement
6. Legal and governance
- Options for legal registration
- Company limited by guarantee
- Company limited by shares
- Community interest company
- Cooperative society
- Community benefit society
- Charitable incorporated organisation
- Charitable limited company
- Appointment of directors
- Company director responsibilities
7. Technical planning
- Technical and regulatory constraints
- Site selection and antenna specification
- Transmission chain
- Multiplex
- Single-frequency network
8. Market and customers
- DSPs and C-DSPs
- Fair competition rules
- Pricing and rate card
- Heads of terms
- Carriage agreements
9. Financial planning
- Capital and start-up costs
- Operating costs
- Revenue projections
- Investment model
10. Applying for a licence
- Timetable and process
- Eligibility and ownership rules
- Award criteria
- Technical plan and coverage
- Ability to establish the proposed service
- C-DSP involvement in the applicant group
- Evidence of demand from C-DSP and DSP service providers
- Fair and effective competition
- Application forms and supporting documentation
- Multiplex licence
- C-DSP and DSP service licences
11. From award to launch
- Project planning
- Resource requirements
- External constraints
- Marketing and customer engagement
12. Multiplex management
- Technical operations
- Customer relations
- Finance and administration
- Regulatory compliance
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