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Archive for November, 2004

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Another step towards analogue switch off

Yesterday Ofcom published the new digital replacement licences (DRLs) offer for commercial terrestrial broadcasters. These would allow broadcasts by ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Public Teletext until definite switch off in 2012. The licences include, in addition to public service requirements, new digital switchover obligations. The deadline for acceptance for Channel 3, Channel [...]

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being Ofcom

Today’s FT has an interesting piece on Ofcom’s image and work-product as it nears the end of its first year in the regulation business. We’re told:
[S]ome broadcasters grumble at how the regulator has gone about its work. A board member at one TV network says: “We were promised light-touch regulation in every precursor to [...]

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Ofcom seeks comment on access to BT’s 21CN

Ofcom’s consultation document, released on 25 Nov 2004, is available here.
Some nuggets:
* Mass migration to BT’s 21st Century Network (21CN) is estimated to hit 50% by 2008.
* The 21CN is ultra-cool and futuristic.
* Ofcom want to ensure that the 21CN ‘accommodates competition from the outset’, but Ofcom won’t ‘become involved in [...]

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OfcomWatch book corner…

Want to know more about digital television in Europe?
Hot off the presses: Digital Terrestrial Television in Europe. The book is divided into two sections: (i) the initial portion which covers policy and technical issues from a broad perspective; and (ii) the second portion which consists of eight country-specific case studies.
Lots of facts [...]

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Oxford Media Convention – 20 January 2005

Details are here.
PSB-issues, the charter review, advertising… looks like a great programme.

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The European Commission and the Media: What Coordination?

The Barroso Commission, after some havoc, took off yesterday. A matter of primary concern seems to be their relationships with the media industry. The new European Commission thinks that these need improving and has proposed to appoint Commissioner Viviane Reding (the new Commissioner for Information Society, Audiovisual Policy and the Media Economy) as the �coordinator [...]

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Spectrum conference London – Philip Ruttnam on the review

See http://www.euconferences.com/radiospectrum04_agenda.htm for the first conference to discuss the OfCom proposals – more once it’s in session tomorrow…

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Ofcom releases spectrum framework review

The document is available here.
The consultation is intended to set Ofcom’s approach to spectrum management for the foreseeable future. Ofcom generally intend to use fewer ‘command and control’ style regulations concerning spectrum use.
Responses to the consultation are due 15 February 2005.
More on this later…

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DT – Ofcom not known by businesses and consumers

Today’s DT highlights a major problem with Ofcom’s consultation process. A large number of businesses and individuals don’t actually know that the regulator exists or what its role is.
There are serious questions for the Ofcom Consumer Panel here, as the article states, “Of the 79 submissions made to phase one of the [Strategic] review [of [...]

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Ofcom asks: How can we make BT play nice in the sandbox?

Ofcom�s Strategic Review of Telecommunications (SRT) Phase 2 report is available here.

Luke has already supplied the main news: BT must ensure �equivalence�, which basically means that rival operators must be given �real� equality of access to BT�s network (similar to what BT�s wholesale arm gives BT�s retail arm). It can be thought of [...]

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SRT – Ofcom goes for equivalence

LONDON (Reuters) – The telecoms regulator Ofcom has backed away from calling for a break-up of BT, saying it instead wants the telecoms giant to offer its rivals equal access to its telecoms network.
The media-to-telecoms regulator, which is carrying out the first major review of the sector in over a decade, said on Thursday most [...]

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DCMS Publish Summary of the Responses to Consultation on the EC Media 2007 Proposals

To help develop its detailed negotiating position the European Commission’s proposals for a new Media Programme (Media 2007), DCMS invited contributions from all stakeholders.
The consultation period closed on 24th September and the DCMS has now published a summary of the responses received.

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Lord Currie – celebrity regulator?

Someone asked me to also check on Lord Currie, saying they thought he had faded into obscurity since Ofcom was formed. Judge for yourself:
Currie appears in 47 articles since January 1, 2004. Recall Carter = 173 articles…
(And I did search ‘David Currie’ as well as ‘Lord Currie’. It’s actually 48 articles because [...]

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The Register – Ofcom’s review of telecoms due this week

Ofcom’s review of telecoms due this week | The Register
Tim Richardson has done a cracking preview of Ofcom’s Phase 2 Strategic Review of Telecoms consultation document. Link above.
He does a run through of the three likely approaches to BT – equivalence, favourable terms, and break up. He tips ‘equivalence’ as the direction Ofcom is most [...]

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Early Day Motion – That this House ain’t happy with Ofcom…

EDM
1923 OFCOM AND ITV REGIONAL PROGRAMMING – 15:11:04
Mr John Grogan
Mr Paul Truswell
Mr Nigel Evans
Bob Russell
Mr Austin Mitchell
Peter Bottomley
* 47
That this House views with dismay proposals by Ofcom to reduce the public service obligation of ITV regional companies to produce high quality regional programming in the regions for viewers in those regions; believes that ITV [...]

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FT Creative Business joins the dots…

Today’s FT Creative Business runs a section on ‘talent pools’. It details that the boys at Ofcom learnt their trade under Lord Birt at the BBC’s Strategy Unit in the 1990s. With Lord Birt now an advisor to Number 10, you could say that this is a model of converged regulation.
BBC Strategy Unit…
“Until the early [...]

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OfcomWatch at the cutting edge of celebrity research

You might recall that in a previous post (Sept 23, 2003), OfcomWatch coined the term �Celebrity Regulator� for use in the nothern hemisphere. At the time, I wrote: �I think Stephen Carter actually has a great chance of being the UK’s first Celebrity Regulator.�
Now, as Ofcom approaches the conclusion of its first year [...]

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FT – Government and Ofcom on ‘collision course’ over advertising junk food to children

FT reports:
Banning food advertisements during children’s TV programmes would be “ineffective and disproportionate” in the battle against childhood obesity, according to Britain’s television watchdog.
A health white paper, to be published by the government tomorrow, will hold out the prospect of a ban on junk food ads at certain times of the day if manufacturers and [...]

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EFJ backs NUJ over Ofcom regional programming proposals

The European Federation of Journalists today warned that plans to introduce digital television services at the expense of regional news coverage in the UK may set a trend for digital development that could be disastrous for news programming in Europe.
European journalists were responding to plans by the UK broadcasting regulator to remove the obligation to [...]

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Ofcom looks to open up broadcast transmission access

Ofcom proposed today that ntl Inc and US-listed Crown Castle international provide network access to their respective broadcast transmission masts.
After analysis of the market, Ofcom is seeking views on its proposals that ntl and Crown Castle each have ’significant market power’ in providing access to their respective masts, site networks and shared antenna systems for [...]

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