Need a licence to have a radio on at work ! ?

[peige]

Small factory with 10 guys working in, they are allowed to have a radio on and all tuned to the same local radio station.

Just recieved a call from a company claiming that I have to buy a licence to do this, no mention of cost at this moment..

Anyone know more, i've looked it up on the internet and the only stuff I can find is from them so i'm not convincend

 

[peige]

this seems to indicate we do

Also
Workstations, etc.
For music audible to workers at
their work stations or otherwise
during the course of their work in
factories, works and other similar
industrial premises, and in
offices:
The royalty per day (being calculated by
reference to the number of employees
to whom the music is audible) for each
half-hour (or part thereof) of
performance for each unit of 25
employees (or part thereof) is .............


I wonder how many bosses are unaware of this one.. just worked it out for me and it looks like £188 a year

 

[peige]

I think that although i'm pretty certain this is true now i'm still concerned that most of the sources of info about it are from them. When they call me (i'm not calling them) I will ask them for links to goverment sites that referance this so I can check, all the sources I can see are getting money for this.

Reminds me of the waste thing when loads of companys were phoning us offering to sort out our waste certs for quite considerable sums of money but it turned out you could do it direct for very little.