Radio stations join forces to apply for East Lancs DAB Multiplex licence A consortium of local radio stations are set to apply for the Blackburn, Burnley and Darwen SSDAB Multiplex licence. Blackburn’s 102.2, Radio Hospitals Blackburn, Burnley College, Ribble FM and Infocus Digital Media, the digital arm of Sunrise Radio in Yorkshire, have come together to apply for the licence as advertised by Ofcom. The new SSDAB platform will reach some 350,000 adults in and around the three core areas and the ambition applicants say ‘is to provide an affordable long-term digital future for many existing broadcasters (community and commercial), as well as new entrants’.
A new consortium consisting of local radio stations and Infocus Digital Media, the digital arm of Sunrise Radio in Yorkshire, has been created to apply for the East Lancashire small-scale DAB licence.