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--- CMA <keeley at commedia.org.uk> wrote:
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> PRESS RELEASE
> 
> 25 January 2002
> 
> CRCA RESPONSE TO GOVERNMENT’S CONSULTATION
> ON MEDIA OWNERSHIP
> 
> The Commercial Radio Companies Association today
> published its response to 
> the Government’s Consultation on Media Ownership.
> The CRCA’s proposals 
> encourage a dynamic market and guarantee plurality,
> diversity and quality 
> for the listener.  The submission makes the
> following key points:
> 
> 
> ·       That the current radio ownership points
> system should be abolished, 
> to be replaced by conventional competition law.
> 
> ·       That the way to “deregulate further” the
> local ownership scheme 
> that the CRCA agreed with the Radio Authority, would
> be to raise above 50% 
> the percentage of points within a market which one
> operator could own.
> 
> ·       That analogue local ownership rules be
> applied to ownership of 
> local digital radio services, until the time when
> there are more than two 
> local multiplexes in one area. At this point
> conventional competition laws 
> should apply.
> 
> ·       That proposals for a moratorium post new
> licence award should be 
> avoided.
> 
> ·       That reciprocity should be the key to
> foreign ownership of UK media 
> companies.  This means that foreign investors should
> be allowed to invest 
> in UK radio up to the extent that UK companies can
> invest in the country 
> concerned.
> 
> ·       That cross-media ownership barriers should
> be lowered as soon as 
> possible using a sliding scale administered by
> OFCOM.
> 
> Paul Brown, Chief Executive of the CRCA, comments,
> 
> “The reduction in ownership and other regulation
> allowed by the 1990 
> broadcasting legislation was good for the UK
> commercial radio industry and 
> its listeners.  A further lightening of the
> regulatory burden is now 
> overdue and will further increase the choice and
> quality offered by UK 
> commercial radio”.
> 
> 
> …ENDS…
> 
> For further information contact Alison Winter on 020
> 7306 2603
> 
> Notes to Editors:
> 
> 1.      The CRCA is the trade association for UK
> commercial radio.  It is a 
> voluntary, non-profit-making body, formed by the
> first radio companies when 
> Independent Radio began in 1973.
> 2.      The full submission can be viewed at
> www.crca.co.uk
> 
> 
> 
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