This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition To stop charity Hospital Radio broadcasting hardwire licence fees.
If possible, I would like all Hospital Radio Stations not to be charged a “hardwire licence fee”.
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Hospital radio stations are charity run and have no regular incomes. For us, we broadcast from a room within the hospital(like the majority of my fellow stations do)and go out to the wards on the floor above. It’s not fair that small charities like ourselves have to pay to broadcast to poorly people within the same building. Hospital radio stations are having to fold because they cannot afford to continue broadcasting.
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
Hospital Radio Licences are commercial products sold by the PPL to radio stations that play recorded music, so charges are a matter for the PPL, not the Government or House of Commons.
You could start a petition calling on the Government to provide funding to support hospital radio stations, to enable them to cover costs such as this licence, if that is something you want to happen.
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.