Source · Select Committees · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 20
20
Paragraph: 160
The Government must ensure that the challenges posed by music streaming to the UK’s prominence...
Recommendation
The Government must ensure that the challenges posed by music streaming to the UK’s prominence regime are duly considered.
Paragraph Reference:
160
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
The Government agrees with this recommendation. As this report and the Committee’s report into the ‘Future of public service broadcasting’ have set out, a major shift is taking place in the way that people are discovering and accessing audio-visual and audio content which are presenting new challenges to the Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) ecosystem. The Government recognises the importance of ensuring that high-quality PSB content is discoverable and widely available to UK audiences as far as possible. That is why as part of its strategic review of public service broadcasting the Government is considering how the prominence regime for audio-visual content can be updated to reflect a modern and sustainable PSB system that can continue to meet the needs of UK audiences in the future. The Government has also committed to acting on Ofcom’s prominence recommendations including through legislation as soon as the legislative timetable allows. The Digital Radio and Audio review is also looking at the impact of connected audio platforms on UK radio and audio production, including the issue of prominence of UK radio and audio services on connected smart speaker devices. The Digital Radio and Audio review will report its conclusions in the autumn.