{"id":433525,"date":"2026-05-18T15:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433525\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:18:13","slug":"potential-licence-breach-over-manx-radios-speech-content-probed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/433525\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential licence breach over Manx Radio&#8217;s speech content probed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cura said Manx Radio Gold, launched in July 2024, had &#8220;attracted complaints and scrutiny&#8221; over its impact on the overall speech content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The regulator said the service was not considered distinct enough from the main station to need a separate licence but that meant it was treated as part of the station&#8217;s overall output.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Analysis carried out by the authority ahead of further planned consultation had &#8220;caused concern&#8221; the speech level was not as high as required.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said while that had been shared with the station, which had been &#8220;invited to suggest remedies that could be put in place&#8221;, there had been &#8220;no progress towards resolving this matter&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The authority said it therefore &#8220;has little choice but to treat the matter as a potential licence compliance issue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although the investigation was currently limited to determining if the speech requirements were being met, the regulator said it reserved &#8220;its right to investigate any additional matters that may arise during the course of the investigation&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cura said Manx Radio Gold, launched in July 2024, had &#8220;attracted complaints and scrutiny&#8221; over its impact on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-433525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}