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  • FM P-III: Second batch e-auctions stopped; no activity for two weeks

    FM P-III: Second batch e-auctions stopped; no activity for two weeks

    NEW DELHI: With little or no movement for more than two weeks except for the Muzaffarpur bids, the e-auction for the second batch of FM Phase has been stopped, even as 44 cities failed to attract bidders, with just M/s South Asia FM Ltd declared as the winning bidder for five Radio FM channels a day after commencement of the process.

    Information and Broadcasting Ministry sources had earlier told radioandmusic.com that the aim was to continue till all the channels slated in the second batch were auctioned, but breaks will have to be taken for weekends and national holidays.

    Ministry sources told the website today that a final result for the second will be issued in a day or two.

    On the last day of the e-auction on 13 December, the bid for Muzaffarpur had risen to Rs 4,35,31,244.from Rs 4,10,47,850 last week, but for the first time remaining below the clock round price of Rs 4,39,66,556.

    Hyderabad and Dehradun remained at top with Rs 23,43,48,266 and Rs 15,61,00,590 respectively on the 26th day with the completion of three rounds taking the total to 100.

    Fourteen bidding companies had been shortlisted for taking part in the second batch.. M/s South Asia FM Ltd will be allotted FM Channels in Surat, Amritsar, Patna, Chandigarh and Jammu.

    Other than Hyderabad and Dehradun, the top sixteen cities remained static with bids of more than Rs 32 million. The bids at Alappuzha (Alleppey), Erode, Hubli-Dharwad, Nellore, Salem, Vellore and Vijaywada remained at just over Rs 70 million while bids for Tiruchy was just above Rs 50 million and Tirupathi, Puducherry and Muzaffarpur to a little over Rs 40 million. Amravati, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar and Ujjain bid a little over Rs 35 million and Mysuru a little over Rs 32 million.

    The first day of auction on 26 October saw a winning price of Rs 1820 milion against the aggregate price of Rs 1792 million, while the second day onwards the bidding has been low.

    This data has been compiled on the basis of system generated “Final Round Result Report” and “Frequency Identification Report” accessible through auction administrator role.

    Also Read : South Asia FM bags five channels in first round of the second batch of FM Batch III

    FM Phase III: E-auction moving at snail’s pace even as Muzaffarpur shows some rise

  • FM P-III: Second batch e-auctions stopped; no activity for two weeks

    FM P-III: Second batch e-auctions stopped; no activity for two weeks

    NEW DELHI: With little or no movement for more than two weeks except for the Muzaffarpur bids, the e-auction for the second batch of FM Phase has been stopped, even as 44 cities failed to attract bidders, with just M/s South Asia FM Ltd declared as the winning bidder for five Radio FM channels a day after commencement of the process.

    Information and Broadcasting Ministry sources had earlier told radioandmusic.com that the aim was to continue till all the channels slated in the second batch were auctioned, but breaks will have to be taken for weekends and national holidays.

    Ministry sources told the website today that a final result for the second will be issued in a day or two.

    On the last day of the e-auction on 13 December, the bid for Muzaffarpur had risen to Rs 4,35,31,244.from Rs 4,10,47,850 last week, but for the first time remaining below the clock round price of Rs 4,39,66,556.

    Hyderabad and Dehradun remained at top with Rs 23,43,48,266 and Rs 15,61,00,590 respectively on the 26th day with the completion of three rounds taking the total to 100.

    Fourteen bidding companies had been shortlisted for taking part in the second batch.. M/s South Asia FM Ltd will be allotted FM Channels in Surat, Amritsar, Patna, Chandigarh and Jammu.

    Other than Hyderabad and Dehradun, the top sixteen cities remained static with bids of more than Rs 32 million. The bids at Alappuzha (Alleppey), Erode, Hubli-Dharwad, Nellore, Salem, Vellore and Vijaywada remained at just over Rs 70 million while bids for Tiruchy was just above Rs 50 million and Tirupathi, Puducherry and Muzaffarpur to a little over Rs 40 million. Amravati, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar and Ujjain bid a little over Rs 35 million and Mysuru a little over Rs 32 million.

    The first day of auction on 26 October saw a winning price of Rs 1820 milion against the aggregate price of Rs 1792 million, while the second day onwards the bidding has been low.

    This data has been compiled on the basis of system generated “Final Round Result Report” and “Frequency Identification Report” accessible through auction administrator role.

    Also Read : South Asia FM bags five channels in first round of the second batch of FM Batch III

    FM Phase III: E-auction moving at snail’s pace even as Muzaffarpur shows some rise

  • FM migration fee submission date extended, Phase I kept out of migration

    FM migration fee submission date extended, Phase I kept out of migration

    NEW DELHI: Existing operators of Phase II FM Radio wanting to migrate to Phase III have been asked to deposit 25 per cent of the non-refundable one-time entry fee (NOTMF) by 5 October.

     

     

    Accepting a demand by Phase II FM operators for extension of time, the Government said that the balance will have to be paid by 15 October instead of the previous deadline of 1 October. 

     

    However, the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry made it clear that the option of migration only applied to Phase II operators and not Phase I operators.

     

    It also said that the migration fee had been fixed according to the recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India of 20 February this year.

     

    As was reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, each channel in Mumbai, which falls under the ‘A’ plus category will have to pay Rs 36.69 crore to the Ministry, while each channel from category ‘D’ city – Aizawl will have to shell out Rs 0.12 crore.

     

    This means that from Mumbai, the Ministry will receive a total of approximately Rs 256.83 crore, considering there are seven stations- Radio City, Red FM, Fever FM, Big FM, Radio One, Radio Mirchi and Oye FM.

     

    The second highest pay-out will come from New Delhi, which will pay Rs 33.33 crore per channel, which means that all the stations together will contribute about Rs 266.64 crore.

  • Mumbai to pay highest fees of Rs 36.7 crore for migration to FM Phase III

    Mumbai to pay highest fees of Rs 36.7 crore for migration to FM Phase III

    MUMBAI: FM operators in Mumbai will have to shell out the highest migration fees of Rs 36.69 crore, payable to the Information & Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry for migration from FM Phase II to Phase III.

     

    The I&B Ministry has released the city wise non-refundable one time migration fee (NOTMF) for migration from FM Phase II to Phase III for existing private FM broadcasters.

     

    According to the ministry, after Mumbai, Delhi FM operators follow with the second highest migration fee of Rs 33.33 crore, whereas Bengaluru is third in line with migration fee of Rs 21.60 crore.

     

    Apart from the top three, existing FM operators in 13 cities will have to pay migration fees of above Rs 10 crore. They are: Chandigarh (Rs 19.04 crore), Hyderabad (Rs 18 crore), Patna (Rs 17.89 crore), Coimbatore (Rs 16.87 crore), Cochin (Rs 15.04 crore), Nasik (Rs 14.66 crore), Lucknow (Rs 14 crore), Pune (Rs 14 crore), Ahmedabad (Rs 13.17 crore), Indore (Rs 13.06 crore), Chennai (Rs 12.27 crore), Visakhapatanam (Rs 11.68 crore) and Vadodara (Rs 11.30 crore).

     

    Additionally, FM operators in 47 cities will have to pay migration fees between Rs 10 – Rs 1 crore. They are as follows: Vijayawada (Rs 9.97 crore), Kolhapur (Rs 9.44 crore), Trivandrum (Rs 8.09 crore), Kanpur (Rs 8 crore), Jaipur (Rs 7.74 crore), Bhopal (Rs 7.49 crore), Kolkata (Rs 7.06 crore), Kozhikode (Rs 7.02 crore), Madurai (Rs 6.49 crore), Puducherry (Rs 6.49 crore), Aurangabad (Rs 6.23 crore), Tiruchi (Rs 6.11 crore), Rajkot (Rs 6.08 crore), Amritsar (Rs 6.03 crore), Trichur (Rs 5.65 crore), Varanasi (Rs 5.26 crore), Nagpur (Rs 5.10 crore), Mysore (Rs 4.66 crore), Tirupathi (Rs 4.50 crore), Mangalore (Rs 4.45 crore), Jalandhar (Rs 4.22 crore), Allahabad (Rs 4.08 crore), Kannur (Rs 4.05 crore), Jabalpur (Rs 3.80 crore), Surat (Rs 3.60 crore), Raipur (Rs 3.43 crore), Panaji (Rs 3.18 crore), Agra (Rs 2.56 crore), Shimla (Rs 2.34 crore), Jodhpur (Rs 2.05 crore), Asansol (Rs 2.02 crore), Patiala (Rs 1.64 crore), Rajahmundry (Rs 1.58 crore), Tirunelveli (Rs 1.57 crore), Gulbarga (Rs 1.50 crore), Tuticorin (Rs 1.50 crore), Gwalior (Rs 1.40 crore), Bhubaneshwar (Rs 1.27 crore), Jamshedpur (Rs 1.26 crore), Warangal (Rs 1.25 crore), Siliguri (Rs 1.05 crore), Udaipur (Rs 1.05 crore), Karnal (Rs 1.04 crore), Ranchi (Rs 1.03 crore), Rourkela (Rs 1.02 crore), Jammu (Rs 1.01 crore) and Kota (Rs 1 crore).

     

    The operators who exercised the option to migrate to FM radio Phase III will have an option to withdraw to migrate within five calendar days of intimation of the NOTMF. The option exercised by the operator who do not wish to migrate to FM radio Phase III shall be final and binding on the operators.

  • Day 16: Bidding slow for FM Phase III as winning price touches Rs 1090 crore

    Day 16: Bidding slow for FM Phase III as winning price touches Rs 1090 crore

    NEW DELHI: Bidding has begun to slow down though the number of channels being bid for has gone up on the sixteenth day of the e-auction for the first batch of FM Phase III cities. The cumulative provisional winning price touched Rs 1090 crore at the end of the 64th round.

     

    With this, a total of 92 channels in 56 cities became provisional winning channels against their aggregate reserve price of about Rs 451 crore.

     

    Thus the summation of provisional winning prices surpassed the cumulative reserve price of the corresponding 92 channels by Rs 638.71 crore or 141.5 per cent.

     

    The cumulative provisional winning price exceeded the total reserve price of the first batch of 135 FM channels in 69 existing cities – Rs 550.18 crore – by almost 98.1 per cent.

     

    The Auction Activity Requirement rose to 100 per cent, after being 90 per cent after the 37th round on 7 August.

     

    The thirteen cities for which bids have still not come are Asansol, Gulbarga, Mangalore, Mysore, Puducherry, Rajahmundry, Siliguri, Tiruchy, Tirunveli, Tirupati, Tuticorin, Vijaywada and Warangal.

     

    The demand in most cities fell by up to three per cent and by four per cent below the excess demand at the price in 60th round in Hyderabad.

     

    The Percentage Price Increment (in INR) applicable for the Next Clock Round was just one in Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Cochin, Guwahati, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Mumbai and Nashik.

     

    The highest provisional winning price in Delhi remained the same for the second consecutive day at Rs 169.16 crore (for just one channel), but rose marginally in Mumbai at Rs 114.66 crore (for two channels) and Bengaluru with Rs 109.25 crore.

     

    Among cities recording more than Rs 10 crore, it rose marginally in Cochin at Rs 14.18 crore and Nasik at Rs 10.72 crore.

     

    Chennai at Rs 53.38 crore; Ahmedabad at Rs 42.68 crore, Pune at Rs 42.03 crore, Chandigarh at Rs 19.04 crore, Jaipur at Rs 28.34 crore, Hyderabad at Rs 18 crore, Patna at Rs 17.89 crore and Lucknow at Rs 14 crore remained static.

  • TRAI seeks industry comments on FM Phase III migration

    TRAI seeks industry comments on FM Phase III migration

    MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released the consultation paper on the migration of FM radio broadcasters from Phase-II to Phase-III. As part of the consultative process, the stake holders have been requested to offer their comments and views by 17 December 2013.

    Accordingly, this Consultation Paper (CP) has been prepared to seek the comments/views of the stakeholders on the date of migration from Phase-II to Phase-III; duration of permission after migration from Phase-II to Phase-III; and the amount of migration fee to be charged from existing operators on their migration from Phase-II to Phase-III.

    It also states that in case of counter-comments it may be submitted by 24 December 2013. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) sent a reference dated 9 April 2013, to TRAI seeking recommendations. The clarifications sought by TRAI were provided by MIB by 22 November, 2013.

    The highlights of the Phase-III policy for FM Radio broadcast will be the validity of license is 15 years from the date of operationalisation of the Channel (10 years in Phase II); FDI limit have been raised to 26 percent in a private FM radio broadcasting company (from 20 per cent in Phase II); and it also allows the permission holder to carry the news bulletins of All India Radio in exactly the same format (unaltered) on such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed with Prasar Bharati, no other news and current affairs programs will be permitted under the Policy. 

    The other salient features of the policy are
    – Permission for the channels shall be granted on the basis of Non-Refundable One Time Entry Fee (NOTEF).

    – NOTEF shall be arrived at through an ascending e-auction process, on the lines followed by DoT in the auction of 3G and BWA spectrum in the year 2010.

    – Reserve Price for new channels in existing FM Phase-II cities, the highest bid price received for that city in Phase-II (Click here for more details); and for new cities, the highest bid price received during FM Phase-II for that category of cities in that region.

    – In case the benchmark from Phase-II for a particular region is not available, the lowest of the highest bid received in other regions for that category of cities.

    – For new cities in border areas with a population less than one lakh, the reserve price shall be Rs 5 lakh.

     

    – Annual licence fee will be four per cent of gross revenue of its FM radio channel for the financial year or 2.5 per cent of NOTEF for the concerned city, whichever is higher. For the permission holders in the States of North East, J&K and island territories (i.e. Andaman and Nicobar islands and Lakshadweep) – at 2 per cent of gross revenue for each year or 1.25 per cent of NOTEF for the concerned city, whichever is higher, for an initial period of three years from the date from which the annual license fee becomes payable and the permission period of 15 years begins.

    -Each applicant will be allowed to own more than one channel but not more than 40 per cent of the total channels in a city subject to a minimum of three different operators in the city.

    -No entity will be permitted to hold more than 15 per cent of all channels allotted in the country excluding channels located in Jammu and Kashmir, North Eastern States and island territories.

    -Networking of channels will be permissible within a private FM broadcaster’s own network across the country subject to 20 per cent of the total broadcast in a day is in the local language of the city and promotes local content.

    – The permission holder is required to follow the Programme and Advertisement Code as followed by All India Radio as amended from time to time or any other applicable code, which the Central Government may prescribe from time to time.

    In this phase, about 839 additional channels in about 294 cities across the country are being offered for the auction.

    Click here for the full consultation paper