A new company has been formed to apply for the small-scale DAB multiplex licence to serve the Milton Keynes area.
Local community radio stations MKFM and Secklow Sounds together with Credible Media, Infocus (the digital arm of Sunrise Radio Yorkshire), and digris are to apply in April under the banner MK Digital Media.
“Milton Keynes is a fantastic place” said Paul Boon, Project Director for MK Digital Media.
“It excels in the jobs market – doing better than London, and is becoming a major centre for music, culture and sport. From a radio point of view, it’s just the location for new and growing radio services to expand into, and guess what, we are on the lookout for more radio stations that we can carry on our multiplex.”
Digris in the UK is headed by Rash Mustapha MBE, the senior Ofcom engineer who led the initial concept and the technical development of small-scale DAB during his time at the regulator.
Infocus is part of two winning applicant groups from Ofcom’s Round 1 awards, and with Credible Media are applicants for the Oldham/Rochdale and Bury/Bolton areas in the North West (Round 2).
Paul Boon and digris were contributors to the Manchester polygon application M&S Digital.
The application is also supported by investing radio stations Roq Raw Radio and Life Radio and more details can be found on the website miltonkeynesdab.com.
See all the known applicants for Round 3 here.
This story first appeared on radiotoday.co.uk