Department For Culture Media Sport
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The government has consulted on whether to amend current legislation (by means of an amendment to the Community Radio Order 2004) to allow Ofcom to renew analogue community radio licences that are approaching expiry at the end of 2025.
Subject to the necessary approvals, the government will now proceed to draft and lay the Community Radio Order 2025 in order to:
Allow community radio licences to be renewed for an additional 10 year period.
Relax advertising and sponsorship restrictions related to community radio, with protections written into the legislation to protect commercial radio stations operating in the same regions as community radio stations.