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Small Digital Planet Limited APPLICATION TO OFCOM FOR THE CHANNEL ISLANDS DAB MULTIPLEX OPERATORS LICENCE BY SMALL DIGITAL PLANET LTD PUBLIC VERSION Part A July 2019 SDP – Channel Islands DAB Multiplex Application. Page 1/46 Executive summary Please provide a summary of your application, of no more than four pages in length. Small Digital Planet (“SDP”) is a company formed by a consortium of Channel Islands' businessmen and radio managers in order to operate the Channel Islands DAB multiplex. The company is well funded and will easily be able to meet it's licence commitments to provide the multiplex service under all eventualities. Our philosophy and strategy over the 12 years of the licence period concerning the use of DAB is twofold: Firstly that DAB is primarily a transmission medium for mobile reception. It is our belief, and generally that of the radio industry and regulators, that DAB will be the primary method of transmission for digital radio services to mobile and portable receivers over the coming decade. Although 5G and other technologies will come into use in the Channel Islands over the licence period, we believe that there will still be bandwidth issues regarding the use of many thousands of receivers upon the mobile network at any one time. Therefore DAB transmissions will be of great benefit in easing these potential network problems. Coincidentally we do envisage that dedicated DAB receiver take-up in homes with a permanent fibre connection will be lower proportionally due to consumers high usage of devices such as 'smart speakers' to listen to digital radio services in fixed locations. Secondly we also believe that '2nd Generation' DAB services, and in particular the use of DAB+ will offer better perceived audio quality to consumers, which, along with more capacity being made available, will enable a larger number of radio services to be broadcast. We make note of the fact that OFCOM have now revoked the previous upper limit of 30% of capacity on a commercial multiplex being DAB+ services. The BBC have indicated to us that they wish the local BBC Radio Guernsey and Jersey services to be broadcast on DAB+ to take advantage of the higher audio quality available. These would be the first regular BBC services to be broadcast on DAB+ anywhere in the British Isles. It is our intention to facilitate the broadening of listener choice in the Islands by expanding the number of English language radio stations currently available on FM and DAB, which at present is extremely limited in choice compared to most areas of the U.K. Small Digital Planet aims to actively encourage the purchase and use of DAB receivers within the Islands, which is currently at a very low base level due to the current non-availability of commercial DAB services within the Channel Islands. Capacity has been allocated from launch to accommodate the existing AM and FM services in the Islands, namely BBC Radio Jersey, BBC Radio Guernsey, Island FM and Channel 103. These stations account for 56.6% of all listening in Guernsey and 50.5% in Jersey. We have also arranged for the Islands' only OFCOM licenced Community Radio station Quay FM to be carried on the multiplex. Capacity has also been allocated for new local and UK digital services to cater for the wide range of interests and tastes of local listeners and visitors. 14 non-BBC services are envisaged, with additional services to launch during the licence term. SDP – Channel Islands DAB Multiplex Application. Page 2/46 Our technical proposals are to match and improve on local heritage commercial FM stations and local BBC services coverage areas from launch, using four transmitters to deliver 'outdoor coverage' (in car receivers) to greater than 96% of roads within the islands and also greater than 92% of indoor coverage in homes and business premises.. In summary: Small Digital Planet will deliver robust local DAB coverage across the archipelago, and will be using primarily DAB+ technology to deliver higher audio quality and a greater number of new radio services to the Bailiwicks. SDP will deliver services that appeal to Channel Islanders and will help commercial radio improve its market share. SDP is well resourced and although a newly established Channel Islands company it has all of the necessary licences to trade within the Bailiwicks in force, due to being locally owned and operated. SDP believes that the Channel Islands multiplex should be owned and operated by Channel Islanders, as too many decisions made in the UK in the past have resulted in the situation that no broadcasting medium or transmission operators are locally owned and controlled, and therefore not accountable to the Channel Islands populace and local governmental bodies. SDP will be a 'facilitator' to Service Providers and will not operate any radio services itself, thus ensuring 'fair access' for both local and U.K. stations to the multiplex. 1. General information (1) Name of Applicant, Small Digital Planet Ltd Registered in Jersey. Co Number: 128989 Certificate of Incorporation and Jersey Financial Services Commission Licence attached. (2) Address, Bond Street Chambers, 1 Bond Street, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, JE2 3NP. (3) Telephone No. and Email Address 01534 748632 [email protected] 2. Main contact (for public purposes) (4) Name: Christopher Bee Telephone (daytime): 01534 748632 or 07700 749749 Address: Bond Street Chambers, 1 Bond St, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, JE2 3NP SDP – Channel Islands DAB Multiplex Application. Page 3/46 Email address: [email protected] 3. Main contact (for Ofcom purposes) : (5) Name: Christopher Bee Telephone (daytime): 01534 748632 or 07700 749749 Address: Bond Street Chambers, 1 Bond St, St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands, JE2 3NP Email address: [email protected] Section 51(2)(a) and (b): Extent of proposed coverage area and timetable for coverage roll-out 4. Summary of coverage proposals Provide a summary, fully consistent with the more detailed information about transmission sites supplied separately (see Q.6 below), of the coverage areas proposed to be achieved by the applicant's technical plan, and an estimate of the percentage of Channel Islands households, Channel Islands major roads and/or the Channel Islands adult (aged 15+) population which will be served by this local radio multiplex service for both indoor and outdoor coverage. (6) Our transmission plan has been designed in conjunction with Arqiva, Bitstream Broadcast Ltd and our own extensive technical and local knowledge to provide the best available coverage to the three main islands of the Channel Islands. At launch we will use 4 transmitters to replicate and improve on BBC FM and current local FM commercial coverage across both Bailiwicks. (7) It is acknowledged that the Channel Islands as a geographic entity are unusual in defining coverage by normal OFCOM coverage parameters. In particular we are dealing with a very small, highly densely populated land mass of three quite distantly separated islands (and some minor outlying islands.). The total land mass to be covered under this licence is 76 sq. miles, which is just over half the size of the City of Glasgow in the U.K. As far as we are aware this Channel Islands licence is the smallest commercial multiplex licence to ever be offered by OFCOM in terms of area covered and population. (8) The percentage of road coverage calculation is a challenge using OFCOM definitions of 'A and Motorway' coverage. In the Bailiwick of Guernsey all roads are 'unclassified' i.e. there is no road numbering system at all. In the Bailiwick of Jersey there is a rudimentary form of road numbering including some 'A' category roads. However, these road numbers are not in everyday use, and we have decided to base our coverage on the total amount of road mileage in Jersey which is 500 miles, Guernsey 250.2 miles and Alderney 26.1 miles. (Source: Digimap (Gsy) Ltd). (9) The topography of the three main islands varies considerably in regard to radio coverage planning: Alderney at 3 sq miles is a flattish island which a single transmitter can cover 99% of the population from a single transmitter site. Guernsey (26 sq miles) is primarily an island with steep cliffs in the south and a gently north- sloping plateau to sea level where the vast majority of the population resides, and we estimate that around 90% of the population of Guernsey, Herm and Jethou can be covered from a single transmitter site in the centre of Guernsey. Outlying Sark (population 500) might receive coverage SDP – Channel Islands DAB Multiplex Application. Page 4/46 from Guernsey particularly on its western side, but this is not guaranteed. Jersey, the largest of the Islands at 45 sq. miles and the most populous at 106,500 (Source: States of Jersey 2019), is also a sloping island with high cliffs in the north, sloping to sea level along the south coast. Our proposed main transmitter site at Les Platons, Trinity is situated on the highest part of the island and gives good robust coverage across most of the island with a few topographic anomalies. The area around St Ouen's Bay on the west coast (pop <250); Greve de Lecq on the north coast (pop <150), St Brelade's Bay (pop <250) and Portelet Bay (pop <100) on the south coast, and St. Peter's Valley (pop <200) in the centre of the island are the main rural areas that will have coverage problems from Les Platons. There will also be a coverage 'hole' on the south east side of St. Helier and into adjoining St. Clements caused by the land mass of Fort Regent overlooking St Helier and blocking the signal from Les Platons.
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