Search results
Aug 20, 2024 · The Media Act is designed to protect public service broadcasting while fostering innovation, so that UK audiences can enjoy the services, video and programming they love. In May, the Media Act 2024 received Royal Assent and became law.
The media has an important role in the formation of public opinion. Via the content and tone of its coverage, it can influence how members of the public understand an issue, which topics they consider important, and what information they use in forming overall political judgements.
- A New Public Service Remit For TV
- A Change of Ownership For Channel 4
- Regulation of Video-On-Demand Services
- Reforms to The Listed Events Regime
- Updating Prominence Regulation
- Supporting Independent TV Producers
- Response to The Digital Radio and Audio Review
The UK’s public service broadcasters (PSBs) are the BBC, ITV, STV, Channel 4, S4C and Channel 5. The PSB system makes sure viewers can access a wide range of public service content on a free-to-air basis. The government wants this to continue. The PSB remit is from an analogue age. Its last update was reforms to the Communications Act in 2003 as a ...
Channel 4 is a great UK success story and the government wants it to remain so and to thrive over the long term. Since 1982 it has done an excellent job delivering its founding purposes: to provide greater choice for audiences and support the UK TV production sector. Forty years on, independent production in the UK is a mature £3 billion industry, ...
Ofcom estimates three in four UK households use a subscription video-on-demand (VoD) service. But services like Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video are not regulated in the UK to the same extent as UK linear TV channels. Netflix and Apple TV+ are not regulated in the UK at all. Except for BBC iPlayer, on-demand services are not subject to Ofcom’s Broadc...
The current listed events regime ensures events of national interest are available to view live, and for free, by the widest possible audience. The list is set by the Culture Secretary and includes the ‘crown jewels’: major sporting events such as the Olympic Games, men’s football World Cup, FA Cup Final, Grand National and Wimbledon finals. Once l...
An important part of the UK’s PSB system is ensuring public service content is readily available to as wide an audience as possible and easy to find. Current broadcasting legislation guarantees the first five channels the public find when they switch on their TVs are PSBs, by reserving these slots in electronic programme guides on TV sets. This pro...
UK TV production, fuelled by domestic and international investment, is booming. Revenues in the independent sector grew more than 50 per cent between 2010 and 2019. The combined spend by film and high-end TV production during 2021 reached £5.64 billion, the highest ever reported. Government intervention during the pandemic allowed productions to co...
The government has today also published its response to the Digital Radio and Audio Review. The government will continue to engage with the radio industry to gain a better understanding of the policies and practices of smart speaker platforms, in order to ensure the UK has the best possible regime to allow radio to continue to reach its listeners w...
Broadcast media in the UK is divided into two categories: public service broadcasting (delivered by corporations such as the BBC), and commercial broadcasting (produced by private media companies...
Oct 31, 2022 · In April 2022 the government published a white paper on broadcasting and in the 2022 Queen’s Speech said it would introduce media legislation. The House of Lords is due to debate the future of public service broadcasting on 3 November 2022.
Apr 29, 2022 · The government recognises the vital role the media, including our television and radio broadcasters, play in holding people to account and shining a light on the issues which matter most.
People also ask
What role does the media play in a democracy?
What is the role of the media in politics?
How will the government support public service broadcasting?
What does the new Broadcast Media Regulation Act mean for the UK?
Jun 8, 2020 · The government is committed to strongly encouraging the consideration of diversity within video games research programmes including the development of the framework supporting future...
