1. The application


Further to the application for transfer of the local programme service known as “Rádio Costa D’oiro”, broadcasting at 106.5 MHz, in the municipality of Portimão, and of the corresponding license for pursuit of the radio broadcasting activity, presented by Fábrica da Sé Catedral de Faro, hereinafter referred to as Fábrica da Sé, Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social (ERC - the Regulatory Authority for the Media), by means of a letter received on 22 October 2015, submitted the respective file to the examination of ANACOM, so that this Authority, under the combined terms of paragraph 9 of article 4 and paragraph 7 of article 22 of Law No. 54/2010, of 24 December (the Radio Law), rules on the transfer of the right of use for frequencies allocated to that body for the provision of a publicly available radio broadcasting service, of a local scope, in the municipality of Portimão.

According to the corresponding investigation file, Fábrica da Sé requested ERC’s authorization to transfer its local programme service to FMEASY - Empresa de Radiodifusão e Informação, Lda. on account of «economic difficulties», and also because «within the applicant no one was available or willing to pursue the work of the deceased radio director».