LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
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Oh - well sort of. Little compared to TikTok or BT. But big compared to you.
Annual running costs for year two: £26,950
Got a grant from Ofcom of £20,000
https://mmo.aiircdn.com/593/65b24591b8658.pdfIt employs 5 people. Surely part time.
Chris Gregg - Managing Director
Ife Thomas - Director
Ian Hickling - Technical Director
Anya Walsh - Company Secretary
Nick Lowther - Deputy Programme Controller
Jake Oliver - Technical Manager
David Hellier - Diversity Content Coordinator
https://www.revolutionradio.com/about-us/revolution-team/
But it's a bigger operation than one person doing a few hours a month.And only fined £400 out of an operation with running costs over £20,000 a year.
And that is out of I don't know how many community radio broadcasters there are in the country.
I'm not saying it's impossible that they would look at you more closely but they would need a really good reason to focus on you out of all the thousands of similar operations out there. And - I really can't see it getting to the point of a fine but if it was then surprised if it is more than a few £100.
And as for prison - I can't see it at all. It would have to be really really major and serious, not something you could do accidentally unaware of it. Not some new thing that surprised you that you could never have guessed one of your users would do. Something going on that was really serious, you knew about it and did nothing about it. It would have to be something like that to send someone to prison or have a criminal case.
Of course do ask someone else and don't rely on me saying that but I'm saying that just to make it clear I don't have that knowledge or expertise not because I have any reason to think anyone else would advise you that there is a significant risk.
^ this, and that they have gone after the little operators blows the argument that they'd only be interested in FB/Twitter etc apart.