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Dear All,<br><br>
Apologies for having been rather elusive over recent weeks - I have been
heavily involved in a local IT centre project up here in Sheffield which
has been taking more time than it should.<br><br>
Congratulations to all of those carrying out test transmissions, or about
to do so! For those of you still waiting on responses from the RA,
commiserations.... If there is anything you would like me to talk
about with them over the next few days, please e-mail me
direct.<br><br>
Most importantly, could I ask that each station e-mails me with an update
of your proposed launch date. The CMA managed to organise a good
deal of publicity around the launch of the first TV RSL broadcasts and we
would like to try and do the same for your stations.<br><br>
Copyright has been another matter which has not had as much input from me
as I would have liked. It has been very difficult to get any direct
replies to e-mails sent to both PRS and PPL, but both organisations now
have details of their proposals on the web.<br><br>
PRS at
<a href="http://www.prs.co.uk/broadcasters" eudora="autourl">http://www.prs.co.uk/broadcasters</a>
(under the top tab radio) has the following:<br><br>
Access Radio <br>
The charge in respect of the above is as follows, subject to an annual <br>
minimum charge of £500 plus VAT and applies to 30th September 2002.<x-tab> </x-tab><br>
Net Broadcasting Revenue (NBR) <x-tab> </x-tab>Rate of Royalty<br>
below £463,369 <x-tab> </x-tab>3%<br>
£463,369 to £926,737 <x-tab> </x-tab>4%<br>
£926,738 or more <x-tab> </x-tab>5¼%<br><br>
Note:<br><br>
1. The royalty is based on a percentage of NBR as per the above table.<br><br>
2. The definition of Net Broadcasting Revenue (NBR) is 85% of the gross <br>
valuable consideration (before any deduction of agency commissions or any other <br>
deductions) whether in money or money's worth derived and received by the <br>
Licensee from broadcasts pursuant to this Licence including advertising <br>
sponsorship subscription funding fees donations barter and contra deals and <br>
other revenue directly related to the programmes broadcast and then <br>
deducting external cost directly and reasonably incurred by the licensee in <br>
producing sponsored Outside Broadcast events provided that if such costs <br>
exceed the value of the sponsorship revenue the value of the said <br>
sponsorship revenue shall be nil. The amount by which such costs exceed <br>
sponsorship revenue may not be set off against other non-sponsorship revenue.<br><br>
3. The NBR bands are adjusted yearly by reference to inflation (RPI).<br>
If you require more details or wish to apply for a licence contact Lisa <br>
Feltham at lisa.feltham@prs.co.uk or fax 020 7306 4499 or tel. 020 7306 4261<br><br>
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PPL at: <a href="http://www.ppluk.com/ppl/ppl_fd.nsf/homeframer?openform&PG=Info" eudora="autourl">http://www.ppluk.com/ppl/ppl_fd.nsf/homeframer?openform&PG=Info</a><br><br>
Radio broadcasts are licensed in a way appropriate to the nature and intent of the service. This information applies, broadly, to all delivery methods including analogue or digital terrestrial broadcasts, cable or satellite radio. It does not, however, apply in respect of internet radio which PPL is not in a position to license aside from simulcasts of existing radio services.<br><br>
Traditional Radio<br>
One form or radio is what we term Traditional Radio. This encompasses services which are not exclusively music only or music and advertisements only, but have other content - typically a combination of presenters, news, traffic and weather reports or other public service elements etc. Such services are also primarily intended for residential and in-car reception. These services are licensed in accordance with an order of the Copyright Tribunal and pay a licence fee which is calculated against Net Broadcast Revenue (NBR).<br><br>
Annual NBR up to £455,881 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2%<br>
Annual NBR above £455,881 to £911,764. . . . . . . . . . . .3%<br>
Annual NBR above £911,764. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5%<br><br>
Test Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .£227.94<br><br>
For further advice please contact the Broadcasting team at the details below.<br><br>
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Non-Traditional Radio<br>
These are services which do not have significant content other than music, or music and advertisements. As these services may be very different from each other, we have no standard form of licence but look at each service on a case-by-case basis. For further advice please contact the Broadcasting team and provide a description of the service in as full a manner as possible, but including at least the following information:<br><br>
(a) Description of typical programme format including ratio between music and other content <br>
(excluding advertisements)<br>
(b) Intended audience<br>
(c) Method of funding<br>
(d) Delivery method<br>
(e) Area of transmission<br>
(f) Name of service<br>
(g) Identity of proprietor<br>
(h) Intended on-air date<br>
(i) Whether PPL-controlled recordings will be used during test transmissions<br><br>
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Contact the Broadcasting team via e-mail to broadcasting.info@ppluk.com<br>
or telephone 020 7534 1203<br><br>
Their definitions of 'Traditional Radio' and Net Broadcasting Revenue can be found at:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.ppluk.com/ppl/ppl_lc.nsf/0000/9d406c67fbf6ffc2802569ad004a6212?OpenDocument" eudora="autourl">http://www.ppluk.com/ppl/ppl_lc.nsf/0000/9d406c67fbf6ffc2802569ad004a6212?OpenDocument</a><br><br>
Traditional Radio<br>
a traditional radio station where the audio part of the station does not exclusively or nearly exclusively consist of Sound Recordings and where either they are frequently interspersed with other material such as, but not limited to, presenters, advertising, news or travel information, dramas or documentaries or where Sound Recordings form the minority of the station service and, in both cases, where the programming is transmitted sequentially<br><br>
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Net Broadcast Revenue<br>
shall be calculated by taking 85% of the gross valuable consideration (before any deduction of agency commissions or any other deductions) whether in money or money's worth derived and received by the Licensee from broadcasts pursuant to this Licence including advertising Sponsorship Barter and Contra Deals and then deducting external costs directly and reasonably incurred by the Licensee in producing sponsored Outside Broadcast events provided that if such costs exceed the value of the Sponsorship revenue the Sponsorship revenue shall be nil. The amount by which such costs exceed Sponsorship revenue may not be set off against other non-Sponsorship revenue.<br><br>
If anyone wants to talk about these issues, by all means call me at the CMA offices between now and Thursday.<br><br>
My full-time work at the CMA finishes this week and as some of you may know, I am off to Norway to carry out some radio related research funded by the Research Council of Norway. I'll be keeping in touch and back for the CMA Festival in June. I will still be reachable via my Commedia e-mail address:<br><br>
lawrie@commedia.org.uk<br><br>
I look forward to speaking with some of you before I leave the country!<br><br>
With best regards;<br>
Sincerely,<br><br>
<br>
Lawrie.<br><br>
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[lawrie@commedia.org.uk]<br>
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[Broadcast Radio Consultant]<br>
[Community Media Assoc.]<br>
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Work contact numbers:<br><br>
Tel: 0114 279 5219<br>
Mob: 07 77 88 44 678<br>
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