February 28th 2005
By: Russ
Ofcom, like many media regulators, suggest that a correlation exists between media ownership and media content. Meaning, that ensuring a diversity of media ownership in some way ensures a diversity of media content. It is a contestable point (particularly when the inevitable follow-on correlation between media content and ...
February 28th 2005
By: Russ
Expect to hear most media policy talk this year geared toward television over internet protocol, or IPTV or television over broadband. You know, 'the future'.
Today's bit of news tracks how IPTV fits into the regulatory scheme that requires UK viewers to pay the license fee. The Times suggests ...
February 25th 2005
By: Luke
Ofcom has granted permission for ITV to reduce the amount of children's and religious programming it shows, giving the broadcaster a chance to boost ad revenues and cut costs.
Continuing the shift to a non-PSB broadcaster, ITV will be permitted to show a minimum of eight hours of children's programmes each ...
February 25th 2005
By: Luke
The Trade and Industry Select Committee will meet on Tuesday 1 March to take evidence in connection with its inquiries into the Ofcom telecommunications review.
The meeting will be held in the Thatcher Room, Portcullis House.
Morning sitting: Ofcom�s strategic review of telecommunications
9.15 am: ...
February 25th 2005
By: Luke
On the Telecoms Review - Ed Richards, said that the regulator was in the 'middle of a long and complex process' and that trying to make the UK's telecoms sector more competitive was 'taking longer than we thought'. Urmmmm...
February 25th 2005
By: monica
Neelie Kroes, the Dutch free market liberal competition commissioner, has announced that next week the European Commission will launch an investigation on the use that German public broadcasters such as ARD or ZDF make of the licence fee (see article in The Guardian). Although the licence fee itself cannot be ...
February 25th 2005
By: Luke
A new group was founded last week in the UK dedicated to influencing spectrum policy toward opening up unlicensed spectrum: Open Spectrum UK is an amalgamation of different community networking groups and non-profit organizations. They came together to submit a response to Ofcom’s Spectrum Framework Review consultation.
They say - 'The ...
February 25th 2005
By: Luke
Reports suggest that Tessa Jowell has seen off John Birt in the battle over the BBC's future. The Green Paper on Charter Renewal is to be released next week and will reveal that the BBC will preserve its licence fee for the next 10 years.
Apprently the Prime Minister backed Jowell ...
February 25th 2005
By: Jan
Here is a (maybe not so) interesting observation: While Broadcast reports that John Birt and Tessa Jowell are in disagreement over future systems for regulating the BBC, and thereby delay publishing the Charter Green Paper, the BBC is already recruiting a future support team to assist the board of governors ...
February 24th 2005
By: Leighton Andrews
Many of us have worried for some years about the likelihood of the division between editorial and advertorial being blurred in the online world. An article in the New York Times shows how extreme this danger has become.
Apparently:
Business news articles appearing yesterday on www.nypost.com included words that were ...
