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Media
Scottish FM L107 goes off the air
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 12 November 2010
Another small local radio station has handed its FM licence back to media regulator OfCom, something that is happening with increased frequency of late.
The story behind the demise of L107 in Lanarkshire, Scotland is a bit confusing. It seems that one of the debt ridden company’s creditors may have seized control of the L107 transmitter, initially taking the service off air, and later replacing it with a back to back mix of music and adverts that did not fulfil the obligations of the station’s OfCom license.
One of L107’s presenters and investors, local radio veteran Scottie McClue, told Scottish tabloid the Daily Record earlier this week: “You couldn’t make this up. Someone has hi-jacked our transmitter and has stuck an MP3 player on it, which blocks us out. We’re all here at the station, but the transmission is coming from elsewhere and we’re still trying to get to the bottom of it. The MP3 sounds as though it’s jumping and it’s playing an awful lot of James Blunt”.
Whether or not McClue ever got to the bottom of it we’re not sure, but we do know that L107’s MD has now told OfCom the service will cease broadcasting. A spokesman for the media regulator told Radio Today: “The Lanarkshire local commercial radio licence was this morning handed back to Ofcom by MD John Prendergast on behalf of L107 FM Ltd. They planned to cease broadcasting at mid-day today, so should already be off the air now”.
