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New local content licence condition for regional commercial radio

The Australian Communications and Media Authority has imposed an additional licence condition on regional commercial radio broadcasters that requires them to broadcast specific levels of local content from 1 January 2008.

The condition requires regional commercial radio broadcasting licensees (licensees) to broadcast from 1 January 2008 the applicable number of hours of local content (‘material of local significance’) between 5 am and 8 pm on business days. The applicable number of hours is three hours for most licences but some classes of licence have a lesser requirement.
The key features of the condition are:

the requirement for licensees to broadcast the applicable number of hours of material of local significance on business days;