Ofcom Revices Cumbria/Lancs DAB Plan

Ofcom have revised plans for Cumbria and North Lancashire local DAB, based on feedback from stakeholders. Instead of two multiplexes, three frequency blocks will be used. It will be up to applicants to decided how the frequencies should be used.

The move is unusually, as the previous proposals allowed for DAB to mirror the FM coverage areas of the largest commercial stations, CFM in the north, and Heart in the south.

The new proposal will allow for more flexibility, and may even see multiple layers of coverage in some parts of the area. Equally, a single much larger multiplex could be created to cover the whole of Cumbria and North Lancashire.