Interesting piece of news from Bernie Martin of Warehouse Light & Sound.
Subject: Fw: PMSE radio sell off - e-petition
> Hi Folks,
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> In case you haven't heard, Ofcom in their infinite wisdom are planning to
> sell off areas of the radio spectrum which may well include those used by
> radio mics, inear monitors, broadcast and so on. All in all it has not been
> a well thought out process it appears.
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> The more cynical amongst us may see it as yet another example of selling off
> the family silver for short term financial/political gain and cause the
> events and entertainment industry some considerable problems and money. The
> irony of the name of the consultation document. 'The Digital Dividend' was
> not lost on me anyway.
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> MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "petitions.pm.gov.uk" claiming to be http://petitions.pm.gov.uk: http://www.gbaudio.80/PMSEspectrum/
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> To quote "So far it has fewer signatures than a petition asking for the
> National Anthem to be replaced by Spandau Ballet's Gold (Gold!). Sign it and
> spread the word - it certainly had an impact on the road pricing proposals
> in terms of press coverage".
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> Background information on this is available through a number of industry
> sources butco.uk/news. htm gives some of the salient
> points and provides some standard letters to send to your local MP should
> you feel like rattling the cage a little more.
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> Please forward this message on to anyone in your address book who may be
> affected, vaguely interested or even just like petitions.
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> Apologies for those who are already involved in this and if you really
> aren't interested there is always the delete button!
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> Thanks and have a nice day
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> cheers
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> Bernie
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