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Amazing Radio complains about BBC service 'copying our concept'

Source: The Guardian

Nov 09, 2009

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National digital station says rival BBC Introducing service is squeezing out commercial players

Amazing Radio, the national digital station that only plays unsigned artists discovered online, has lodged a complaint to the BBC Trust calling for rival service BBC Introducing to be investigated for allegedly squeezing out commercial players.

The company launched on digital audio broadcasting (DAB) on 1 June, only the third digital-only station on the service, as a national launchpad for unsigned artists that have uploaded music to the website amazingtunes.com.

Paul Campbell, the chief executive of parent company Amazing Media Group, has written to the BBC Trust chairman, Sir Michael Lyons, complaining that the corporation's rival service, based around the BBC Introducing website, is an unnecessary copycat of a product already provided by the market that has been massively expanded and now threatens to kill his business plans.

"It is an outrage that the BBC should use public funding to copy our concept and, by default, seek to put us out of business. This is to all i

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