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Ofcom has received two applications for the Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire local digital radio multiplex licence.

The applicants are:

MuxCo Home Counties Limited
96a Curtain Road, London EC2A 3AA
Contact: Gregory Watson, Tel: 07917 413700, Email: gregory.h.watson@googlemail.com

The shareholders of MuxCo Home Counties Limited are as follows:

MuxCo Limited 35%
The Local Radio Company plc 20%
Adventure Radio Limited 20%
Absolute Radio International Limited 20%
Shadow Radio Holdings Limited 5%

MuxCo Home Counties Limited is proposing to provide nine local digital sound programme services, in addition to BBC Three Counties Radio, as follows:

Description	Name	Provider
Contemporary	Chiltern FM	GCap Media Digital Limited
Contemporary	Horizon FM	GCap Media Digital Limited
Gold	Classic Gold	Classic Gold Digital Limited
Adult contemporary	Hertbeat FM	Shadow Radio Holdings Limited
Variety Pop & Rock	Jack FM	Absolute Radio International Limited
Easy	Easy Radio	Easy Radio Limited
Dance/Chill	Confidential	Confidential
News, Views & Information	TBC	MuxCo Home Counties Limited
Hit music family focused service	Mercury Plus	Adventure Radio Limited

MuxCo Home Counties Limited proposes to commence its service with eight local digital sound programme services on 1 April 2008, using a network of seven transmitters which it estimates will provide 'outdoor' coverage of 89.5% of the adult (aged 15+) population of the licensed area. One further local digital sound programme service will launch in 2010.

Now Digital Limited
GCap Media plc, 30 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7LA
Contact: Maha Jamil, Tel: 020 7054 8128, Email: maha.jamil@gcapmedia.com

Now Digital Limited is a wholly-owned subsidiary of GCap Media plc.

Now Digital Limited is proposing to provide eight local digital sound programme services, in addition to BBC Three Counties Radio, as follows:

Description	Name	Provider
Contemporary Chart Hits	97.6 Chiltern FM	GCap Media Digital Limited
Contemporary Chart Hits	96.9 Chiltern FM	GCap Media Digital Limited
Contemporary Chart Hits	Horizon Radio	GCap Media Digital Limited
Classic Hits	Classic Gold 792	Classic Gold Digital Limited
Modern Rock	Xfm	GCap Media Digital Limited
Chill out	Chill	GCap Media Digital Limited
Classic Rock and Pop (06.00-24.00)	Jack	Absolute Radio International Limited
Religious	UCB UK	UCB Limited

Now Digital Limited proposes to commence its service with eight local digital sound programme services by July 2008, using a network of seven transmitters which it estimates will provide 'outdoor' coverage of 87.2% of the adult (aged 15+) population of the licensed area.

This local radio multiplex will include capacity reserved for the transmission in digital form of BBC Three Counties Radio.

The full applications for this licence will be published on the Ofcom website shortly.

Ofcom welcomes the views of the public about the local needs of listeners in this area and the type of service required. Opinions on these issues can either be emailed to commercialradio@ofcom.org.uk or posted to Neil Stock, Head of Radio, Ofcom, Riverside House, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 9HA. Please mark the envelope 'Herts., Beds. and Bucks. Licence'.

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