- Clearer signal

- Increased coverage

- Enhanced functionality

- Reduced broadcast costs

Digital radio is coming to the UK, and we want to help secure your place in the story. 

In 2018, Ofcom announced plans for small-scale digital radio (ssDAB).  This was to ensure that smaller radio stations, who were unable to afford the expensive carriage fees on regional DAB multiplexes were still able to be part of the move from FM to digital broadcasting. 

At Credible Focus, we’re bidding to operate the multiplex (mux) in Oldham and Rochdale, which covers East Manchester.  The multiplex can carry a number of services to a potential audience of over half a million people. 

Applications to run the multiplex are to be submitted from June 1st 2021, and we expect the licence to be awarded some six months later.

We're looking for groups and organisations to express an interest in being carried on the multiplex.

What is ssDAB?

- New technology

- Lower cost

- Software driven

- Localised areas

Small-scale DAB is a new way of transmitting digital radio that uses advances in software and low-cost computer technology to provide a flexible and inexpensive approach to the terrestrial broadcast of digital radio services to a relatively small geographic area.

The system uses this new technology to carry a number of services on the same frequency.  This single frequency, which broadcasts multiple services is called a multiplex.

Ofcom have divided the UK into "polygons" - areas which may be covered by these new multiplexes.

One of the polygons advertised is for Oldham and Rochdale, which also encompasses areas of Tameside.