[cr-india] Uruguay approves Community Broadcasting Bill

[sajan venniyoor]

 We made a serious error of judgment by not asking for a specific bandwidth
(say, 2 MHz or even one-third of the FM spectrum as in Uruguay) to be set
aside for community broadcasting. We were once told that the
Telecommunications Ministry had set aside 3 frequencies in each location (
90.4, 90.8 and 91.2 MHz) for community radio, but this seems increasingly
unlikely. For instance, 91.1 MHz has been given to a commercial FM radio
network (Radio City), so there is no chance that 91.2 MHz would be given to
CR anywhere that Radio City has a presence.

Since the frequency allocations for CR were never made official, all this is
very speculative. We know for a fact that 90.4 MHz has been extensively
given to campus radio across India, but that's about it. There is nothing
about frequency allocation for community radio in the CR Policy.

Sajan


On 12/20/07, paolo palmerini <paolo at palmerini.org> wrote:
>
> On 12/19/2007 01:32 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
> > On Dec 13, 2007 9:08 AM, sajan venniyoor < venniyoor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Check out the new Uruguayan CR Bill. This is what all CR regulation
> should
> >> aspire to be.
> >>
> >> 1. It sets aside one-third of all radio (AM & FM) *and* television
> >> frequencies for community-based media.
> >> 2. Licenses are granted by a council made up of all the stake-holders.
> >> 3. There is no fixed transmitter power or coverage area - the range
> depends
> >> on the size of the audience.
>
> [...]
>
> > in most probability we will follow the same pattern the only
> > difference being that the set aside frequencies wil be fought over by
> > unreliance, tata-byebye and co rather than communities.
>
> what is the regulation set by the new law in india for frequency
> allocation to CR? is there a frequency range that has been reserved for
> communiry radios? if so, how wide is it?
>
> i have been try to find these information on the ministry's website but
> i did not succeed.
>
> thanks
> p.
>
>
> --
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