Rother FM - Ofcom Licensing

Section 105 (B) and (C): Catering for tastes and interests/broadening choice
In order to allow Rother FM to take advantage of the widest range of presentation talent
available within the group, a few of our locally-made automated programmes may be voiced
by presenters based at other Lincs FM Group stations. However, the programmes would be
produced at Rother FM, for Rother FM, using local material (what’s ons, chat about local
issues and so on) provided by Rother FM and indistinguishable in any way from programmes
fronted by presenters who are physically based at Rother FM’s studios.
We note that the term used in this question is “locally-made”, and of course such programmes
fall into that category. The draft format wording asks for something slightly different: the
number of hours to be “locally produced and presented”. In writing our draft format we have
assumed that this phrase is designed to mean the same thing as “locally-made” and have
answered accordingly. We trust that using presenters at other stations in the Group to voice
a small number of locally-produced automated shows does not exclude them from the
category of “locally produced and presented.”
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