Thread: AM Radio fading into history
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Old 14-12-2023, 10:40   #80
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Re: AM Radio fading into history
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Originally Posted by Rillington View Post
Thank you that input.

Interesting that Bauer or Global face no consequences for switching off these stations. They did have to pay a small fine when they switched off the MW transmissions for Absolute Radio.

I still find it surprising that Ofcom hasn't offered any of these frequencies for use by another station.
There is a vast difference between local licences & national ones. under OFCOM rules any local analogue provider that duplicates the same service on a local DAB mux can renew the relevant analogue licence automatically without having to re-apply.

As far as higher power (over 100 watts) analogue AM equipment is concerned, there is not a lot of it about now. Most is produced specifically for the US market. When Radio Caroline first got their 1kW licence, they had to extensively modify the Nortel unit purchased for them in order to operate it at 648kHZ, as all US AM stations operate in multiples of 10kHZ.
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