chapter 2 Regulatory activities of KommAustria Regional and local radio broadcasting In the local and regional terrestrial broadcasting sector, a total of 50 procedures were carried out in 2017, 17 of which were still pending at the end of the reporting period. The large majority of procedures in this sector related to expired licences that had to be put to tender again and re-awarded as part of official duties. While one such procedure was still ongoing at the end of the reporting period, in all of the 17 completed procedures, the previous holders were reissued radio broadcasting licences for their respective coverage areas: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ‘Kärnten’, to Antenne Kärnten Regionalradio GmbH & Co. KG ‘Oberösterreich’, to Life Radio GmbH & Co. ‘Tirol’, to Regionalradio Tirol GmbH ‘Baden and Waidhofen/Ybbs’, to Radio Maria Österreich – Der Sender mit Sendung ‘Salzkammergut’, to Freies Radio Salzkammergut – Verein zur Förderung freier, nichtkommerzieller Radioprojekte im Salzkammergut (FRS) ‘Oberösterreichischer Zentralraum’, to Welle 1 Oberösterreich GmbH ‘Linz 91.8 MHz, Wels und Perg’, to Welle Salzburg GmbH ‘Oberösterreich Mitte’, to Entspannungsfunk GmbH ‘Ennstal’, to CULTURCENTRUM WOLKENSTEIN ‘Raum Köflach’, to Weststeirische Regionalfernseh GmbH ‘Osttirol und Oberkärnten’, to Radio Osttirol GmbH ‘Östliches Nordtirol 2’, to Antenne „Österreich“ und Medieninnovationen GmbH ‘Innsbruck and parts of Innsbruck Land district’, to Klassik Radio Austria GmbH ‘Innsbruck 99,9 MHz und Teile des Bezirkes Innsbruck Land’, to N & C Privatradio Betriebs GmbH ‘Bludenz und Feldkirch’, to Dachverband für Kultur- und Medieninitiativen und Jugend ‘Wien 98,3 MHz’, to Superfly Radio GmbH As a result of applications by relevant parties, seven licensing procedures were conducted: the frequencies ‘WIEN INNERE STADT (Donaukanal) 102,1 MHz’ and ‘RADENTHEIN 3 106,2’ were assigned to create new coverage areas, one application was later withdrawn, and four applications (involving coverage areas in Vienna, Lower Austria and Salzburg) were still pending at the end of the reporting period. In a number of other instances, the parties’ applications were aimed at expanding existing coverage areas or improving coverage in existing areas. In these cases, frequencies as listed below were assigned (through a total of 15 decisions relating in part to multiple frequencies): ‘PERG (Lanzenberg) 89,7 MHz’ and ‘KREMSMUENSTER (Gusterberg) 99,2 MHz’, to Radio Arabella Oberösterreich GmbH & Co. KG ‘PERG (Lanzenberg) 94,5 MHz’ and ‘WELS 2 (Sternhochhaus) 87;7 MHz’, to Welle Salzburg GmbH ‘PETTENBACH (Friedenskreuz) 94,2 MHz’, to Freies Radio B138 ‘PERG (Lanzenberg) 103,6 MHz’ and ‘KREMSMUENSTER (Gusterberg) 98;6 MHz’, to Radio Ö24 Oberösterreich GmbH ‘ALTLENGBACH (Steinhutberg) 95,0 MHz’ and ‘HOCHSTRASS (Hasenriegel) 107,8 MHz’, to Radio Arabella GmbH ‘ZWETTL NOE 3 (Loschberg) 99,3 MHz’ and ‘ZWETTL NOE 2 (EVN Mast) 94,9 MHz’, to Radio Arabella Niederösterreich GmbH ‘KNITTELFELD 2 (Feistritzer Wald) 101,1 MHz’ and ‘KAPFENBERG 3 (Burg • • • • • • • Oberkapfenberg) 95,0 MHz’, to Radio Grün Weiß GmbH communications report 2017 27