Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Urgent call for UK radio spectrum use survey

The European Commission has been consulting on the possibility of radio spectrum harmonisation as a means of maintaining Programme Making and Special Events (PMSE) availability, particularly for wireless mics and video cameras. As part of the EC’s development of the related Impact Assessment, it is conducting an online survey to determine the social, economic and cultural costs and benefits that each of the different potential harmonisation options they are considering will bring.


The questions are designed to establish details of the products produced or used by respondents, general business performance and turnover figures, market share, investments, expected future projections and the like. They also ask how each policy option will affect a business in terms of sales and costs.

The European Commission’s three options are: (i) to do nothing, (ii) to allocate common tuning ranges for wireless microphone use across the EU or (ii) to harmonise specific spectrum bands for wireless microphones and IEMs across all countries.

It is essential – indeed critical – for the future of PMSE equipment use in Europe, to get as large a response from the PMSE sector as possible to this survey. With this in mind, the British Entertainment Industry Radio Group (BEIRG) is urgently requsting all relevant parties to fill in to the EC’s online survey. While it is appreciated that we are all very busy, ten minutes taken now could help to safeguard our sector’s future for many years to come.

Please note that the deadline for responses is 15 March 2013. BEIRG is very happy to provide assistance with submissions should it be required.

Please pass this survey on to any additional PMSE users or interested parties, so that the industry is as fully represented as possible.

Survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s/PMSESurvey