BBC Midlands Asian Network

EDM number 852 in 1991-92, proposed by Norman Fowler on 12/03/1992.

That this House congratulates BBC Radio West Midlands and BBC Radio Leicester on the programmes they provide for Asian listeners across the Midlands on the Asian Network; views with concern the threat to this popular and socially useful service posed by plans to reallocate the medium wave frequencies on which it is broadcast; and in the interests of the Asian listeners, calls upon the BBC, the radio authority and the Home Secretary to agree to use of frequencies in the Midlands which will give the Asian Network security on its medium wave frequencies and also provide for future Asian independent entrants to local radio.

This motion has been signed by a total of 8 MPs.