RAJAR has today released audience research for the Quarter ended March 2012 and its great to see further strong growth in digital radio listening. Key headlines for RAJAR are: 45% of the population has tuned in via any Digital platform 22.1 million adults have access to a DAB receiver up 12% year on year For [...]
As we develop our launch plans for the new multiplexes, if you are interested in providing a service on any multiplex, please let us know. We have a MuxCo Service Provider Questionaire, which can be downloaded from this page. The application process is: All applicants must complete the attached questionnaire. Only valid and completed application [...]
Digital Economy Act Summary of Radio Clauses The Digital Economy Act entered Statute on 9th April Like all legislation, the Act is incredibly complex, and like all radio legislation it is pretty impenetrable, not least because it does not simply set out a new framework, but instead amends three previous pieces of legislation to achieve [...]
MuxCo updates plans for its new DAB Digital Radio multiplex that will serve Liverpool, Cheshire and North Wales. Using transmitters at Moel-y-Parc, Wrexham Rhos and St.John’s Beacon, the multiplex will serve around 1.4m adults (15+) and enabling a range of existing and new services to broadcast in digital. The multiplex will carry BBC Radio Wales, [...]
The Digital Radio Working Group (‘DRWG’) has today (19 Dec 2008) published its final report on the status and strategy for digital radio. In the UK, 31.4% of all adults every week currently listen to radio via a digital radio platform, and this results in the digital platforms having a total share of all radio [...]
Sorry to all those film buffs who thought I might do a review of the excellent 1976 film. However, I really wanted to talk about the 96.4 variety and landed a slot on local DAB. Today MuxCo, working with UKRD Group, has submitted an application for the Surrey & North Sussex multiplex. Whilst we won’t [...]
We were also pleased to announce last week that Nicky Tate is to join MuxCo parent company, Folder Media, as Operations Manager. Folder Media manages the MuxCo multiplexes on behalf of the different shareholders and Nicky will, as such, take on the mantle as Multiplex Manager for the network. Nicky’s an incredibly experienced Multiplex Manager [...]
It’s disappointment all round here at MuxCo towers, as the news was revealled that NOWdigital had won the digital licence for Oxfordshire. We believed (and still do) that our application had the widest choice of services for listeners, so we’re a bit down that Ofcom awarded it to the other bidder. Obviously, we’re pressing on [...]
We agreed at lunch that Gloucestershire was application number seven for MuxCo. It’s been an interesting one to do, partly because of its proximity to Hereford and Worcester which Ofcom awarded to MuxCo last month. In fact, we think it provides a great opportunity for the stations that broadcast on both multiplexes as it grows [...]