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Commercial Radio

Licences issued in this period

Licence Type	Licensee	Service Name/description
RLCS*	Faithworld TV	Faith World Radio
RLCS	Voice Radio (UK) Ltd	Voice of T Radio
RLCS	UK Asia Media Solutions	ILM Radio
National DSP**	Children's Radio UK Ltd	Funkids
National DSP	Amazing Radio Group Ltd	Amazing Radio

*Radio Licensable Content Service
**Digital Sound Programme service

Services which have ceased to be licensed (handed back or revoked) in this period

The following services are no longer licensed. The relevant licence is either:

• No longer required by the licensee so has been handed back, or;
• In the case of a licence covering multiple services, has been amended to remove the requirement to provide the specific service; or
• Revoked for breach of a licence condition

Service Name	Licensee	Location	Service Type
Mix 107	Mix 107 FM Ltd	High Wycombe	Local commercial analogue

Licence extensions, renewals and re-awards

Extended licences:
AL064-2 Gold (Swindon) – expiry date now 11 October 2014
AL011-3 Gold (Northamptonshire) – expiry date now 14 October 2014
AL029-3 Gold (Cheltenham & Gloucester – expiry date now 31 December 2014
AL084-2 Gold (Brighton & Eastbourne) – expiry date now 28 August 2015
AL059-2 Leicester Sound – expiry date now 06 September 2014
AL066-2 Gold (Greater London) – expiry date now 15 October 2014
AL067-2 95.8 Capital FM – expiry date now 15 October 2014
AL070-3 Gold (Ipswich) – expiry date now 07 November 2015
AL058-2 Sabras Radio – expiry date is now 06 September 2014
AL171-1 Radio XL – expiry date is now 29 May 2014

Licence renewals:
A Licence Renewal has been granted to AL220-1, 105.4 Real Radio (NW) – expiry date is now 07 September 2021

Re-awarded licences:
The current licence for AL217 Touch Radio (S.E. Staffordshire) expires on 31 May 2010.  The incumbent was the only applicant for the re-advertised licence.  Ofcom has re-awarded the licence to Central Broadcasting Ltd.  

The licence for Silk FM (Macclesfield) has been re-awarded to the incumbent. Expiry date of new licence is 31 December 2015.

Analogue station Format Changes

Each station has as part of its licence a 'Format', which outlines what the essential nature of the service and details any specific expectations of that service.
Any changes to a format can only be made by following the correct procedure and with the appropriate permission from Ofcom.

Agreed Change of Format: The Severn
Published 22|06|09

Content Sampling Reports

Ofcom ensures that an individual station is meeting its Format requirements by listening to that station's output - a process which we refer to as 'content sampling'. The sampling of a particular station may be prompted by a complaint concerning a Format-related issue, or may be entirely routine.

Bath FM and Brunel FM
Published 29|06|09

DAB station Format Changes

The following multiplex Format changes were agreed in this period.

Change	Multiplex
Addition of Trans World Radio under a Christian Format	North West England

Change of Control Reviews

Whenever a local radio licence undergoes a 'change of control' (for example, when it is sold), Ofcom is required under section 355 of the Communications Act 2003 to undertake a review of its programme output.
Specifically, Ofcom must review the likely effect of the change of control on:

• the quality and range of programmes included in the service;
• the character of the service; and,
• the extent to which local material and locally-made programmes are included in the service.

When the review has been completed, Ofcom may amend the content requirements of the licence.

There were no Change of Control Reviews in this period.

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Community Radio

Licences issued in this period

Service Name	Licensee	Location
The Hillz	WATCH Ltd	Hillfields, Coventry
Mearns FM	Mearns Community Radio Ltd	The Mearns, Aberdeenshire
Penistone FM	Penistone Community Radio Ltd	Penistone, South Yorkshire
Tulip FM	Tulip Radio Ltd	Spalding, South Holland
KCC Live	Mission Need Ltd	Knowsley, Merseyside
Bolton FM	Bolton FM Community Interest Company	Bolton, Lancashire
Zeta 105.3	Forest Heath Public Radio Ltd	Forest Heath District, Suffolk

Services which have ceased to be licensed (handed back or revoked) in this period

There were no licences revoked/surrendered in this period.

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