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Our MuxCo Project

Gregory Watson — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:49:24 +0000

MuxCo Ltd was created to help operators of smaller radio services and new companies and organisations who have an interest in broadcasting, to participate in DAB digital radio, either as full or part time services.

MuxCo Ltd’s principle objectives are:

Delivering efficient local multiplex solutions
Making local DAB more cost efficient for service providers
Creating economic benefits to shareholders, enabling them to invest in existing and new services
Helping develop and deliver data services

The shareholders in MuxCo Ltd are Folder Media (75%) and Arqiva (25%). We brought in NGW (since acquired by Arqiva) to provide technical expertise and transmission resource, in order to be able to devise and present efficient and economical transmission solutions to the local MuxCo companies.

A separate ‘local’ MuxCo company is established for each local DAB multiplex area. MuxCo Ltd takes a strategic investment in the relevant consortium, alongside local partners.

In 2006 Ofcom published a working list for areas where it proposed to advertise a local DAB multiplex, and it began to advertise these licences in December 2006 with a licence serving Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

The MuxCo network has been awaded licences to provide local DAB services to cover North & Mid Wales, West Wales, Herefordshire & Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Surrey & North Sussex, Somerset, Lincolnshire and North Yorkshire.

Details of the ‘local’ MuxCo companies and their shareholders can be found at www.muxco.com.

Becoming a Digital Radio Broadcaster

Matt Deegan — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:45:59 +0000

Whether you want to get your radio station on DAB Digital Radio, Sky, Virgin Media cable, or the Internet, getmeondigitalradio.com will help steer you towards who own and operates the relevant platform, how to contact them, how to build your multi-platform broadcast strategy and how easy it might be to achieve that.

10% of all UK radio listening is currently undertaken through DAB Digital Radio. Isn’t it about time your station was also broadcasting on DAB Digital Radio?

Get To Know The Team

Nicky Tate — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:42:20 +0000

We are a fairly small team but an established one. Put simply, we are very used to working with each other. In fact we have been working with each other for more or less ten years. Given the opportunity to part company and work for other people we decided collectively that we’d rather stick together. So we must have something in common other than a drawer full of similarly branded mugs..

Gregory is a chartered accountant by training, and this manifests in many respects; it extends to his extraordinary attention to detail and clarity of thought, his fondness for spreadsheets and penchant for courdroy.

Matt and Greg generate a lot of the ideas for Folder, and Matt is likely to be the one to develop the idea, or maybe take it in an unexpected direction. He’s also likely to be asked if he’s done something to his hair because it looks different today.

As an established expert in the field of Market Research, Deanna is very good at finding out what people like, or what they don’t like. Or what they might like. It is extremely useful to be able to draw on the expertise of Deanna and her team at Hallet Arendt to ensure that our projects have a reality check.

As well as keeping the multiplexes operating smoothly, Nicky works with Gregory and Matt to get projects up and running, and keeps them running. Working out of the Midlands, she’s usually found on the end of a phone.

Latest addition Matt Bowling has joined as an intern to assist us with the listener marketing and social networking projects. He works closely with the other Matt, who has subsequently been renamed “Old Matt” in order to aid office communication. “Old Matt” is not very pleased about his new name but delighted to have “New Matt” on board, as are we all.

So that’s us. We hope to get to know you soon. You can find out even more about us and get our contact details in our team section.