Current radio ownership laws are based on the 1990 Broadcasting Act. The system is based on the total number of licenses any one company can own in the whole of the UK. No single company can own more than 15% of the total number of potential commercial radio listeners and the rules also ban ownership of more than one commercial national radio license.
The so-called "three plus BBC" rule is likely to be implemented, meaning that operators can own as many licenses in an individual area as they like, subject to competition restrictions, as long as there are four operators in any one area.
The Radio Authority and the Commercial Radio Companies Association has also proposed that the ban on owning more than one national commercial station be dropped in favor of allowing the competition commission to decide.
Capital, Emap, GWR, Scottish Media Group, Chrysalis and Scottish Radio Holdings - will become the possible groups at most, ridding the smaller radio companies from their job.
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