29th Jan 2015 15:46
LONDON (Alliance News) - The UK's communications regulator Thursday said that that Babcock International PLC's media services business and commercial radio group Orion Media are jointly competing against a consortium of transmission company Arqiva and commercial radio broadcasters Bauer and UTV Media GB for a licence to run a second national, commercial digital radio 'multiplex' in the UK.
According to Ofcom, the multiplex, a term which refers to a discrete chunk of the airwaves needed to broadcast radio stations, will deliver around 15 new national digital audio broadcasting (DAB) stations next year.
Ofcom said it hopes to award the licence by summer 2015 and the first new digital stations are expected to be on air in 2016.
Listen2Digital, made up of Babcock's media services business and Orion Media is proposing to provide 18 national DAB services, while the consortium making up Sound Digital is proposing to provide 15 national DAB services.
By Samuel Agini; [email protected]; @samuelagini
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