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Broadcast Licences
Tony Marshall made this Freedom of Information request to Office of Communications
The request was successful.
From: Tony Marshall
25 January 2012
Dear Office of Communications,
How Many Broadcast Licences are held in the United Kingdom for a)
Radio and b) Television. This would include analogue, DTT, DAB,
Satellite etc but not non-broadcast services such as internet only
services.
Yours faithfully,
T.Marshall
From: Anna Gage
Office of Communications
26 January 2012
Dear Tony,
I acknowledge receipt of your request for information, below.
All our TV licensed services are listed by platform on the Ofcom website: http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/tv-broadca...
For Radio:
Community:
See here http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/radiolice...
RSLs:
See here http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radio-broa...
Commercial:
Local sound broadcasting service licences (commercial AM/FM) - 294
National sound broadcasting service licences - 3
Radio licensable content service licences (for satellite/cable) - 83
Local digital sound programme service licences (for local DAB) - 61 (not an indication of how many local DAB services there are as a licence can cover more than one service on more than one mux)
National digital sound programme service licences (for national DAB or Freeview) - 13
Digital additional service licence (for non-auxiliary services on DAB) - 7
Additional service licence - 1
Local radio multiplex service licences - 46
National radio multiplex service licence - 1
I hope this information is of assistance.
Kind regards
Anna
:: Anna Gage
Broadcast Licensing Administrator
Broadcast Licensing
Content, International and Regulatory Development (CIR)
Tel: 020 7783 4321
Fax: 020 7981 3806
Email: [email address]
:: Ofcom
Riverside House
2a Southwark Bridge Road
London SE1 9HA
020 7981 3000
www.ofcom.org.uk
This email is sent as routine correspondence from the Television Licensing Team and has not been treated as a response to a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. If you think it should, please let us know.
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