The interview is here.  I thought this was the most interesting nugget:

While ruling out any immediate attack on the licence fee, Carter makes it clear that he feels differently about the “money for digital switchover” in considering the “right here and right now answer to alternative funding”. This is the £600m or so that has also led to disagreements between Ofcom and the beleaguered BBC. When asked whether he thinks it is a surplus, Carter demurs and says “in the first instance we have got to prove the case that there’s a need for it”.

Yet he is also keen to avoid the suggestion that money can just be handed over to poverty-pleading rivals such as Channel 4 or ITV. “We as a country have got to get to a point where we equate broadcasting and broadband in our policymaking, because if we continue making broadcasting-only decisions we are going to get left behind.”

My take: Ofcom’s PSB review does look at new media provision of public service content, but the overall focus seems to be on the institution of C4.  Of course, the problem with a focus on broadband — for the BBC — is that it exposes the potential viability of a subscription model of funding which would surely see the state-owned broadcaster shrink in size.

More consumerism in media?  They don’t want that…