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Sixth Report - The future of public service broadcasting
Culture, Media and Sport Committee
HC 156
Published 25 March 2021
Government response
First Special Report - The future of public service broadcasting: Government Response to Committee’s Sixth Report of Session 2019–21 · published 17 Jun 2021
Recommendations & Conclusions
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Recommendation
Accepted
Para 24
Universality is at the heart of public service broadcasting and should remain so.
Recommendation
Universality is at the heart of public service broadcasting and should remain so. Linear broadcast television by PSBs remains important and with delays to full fibre broadband rollout, a wholly online public service broadcasting system allowing for universal access is …
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Government Response Summary
The government agrees on the importance of universality and states its strategic review of public service broadcasting is examining PSB remits and will consider necessary changes to expectations in light of industry trends and funding.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Recommendation
Accepted
Para 52
We are pleased that Ofcom highlighted the deficits in children’s programming across the PSB portfolios...
Recommendation
We are pleased that Ofcom highlighted the deficits in children’s programming across the PSB portfolios in 2018 and consider it vitally important that it continues to keep PSB performance in this area under regular review. We recommend that the Government …
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Government Response Summary
The government confirms that evaluation of the Young Audiences Content Fund is ongoing, and a full evaluation will be conducted to determine its impact, after which a decision will be made on whether to close, maintain, or expand the scheme.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Recommendation
Accepted
Para 96
Where an established media brand is providing programming, it is not right to make the...
Recommendation
Where an established media brand is providing programming, it is not right to make the default assumption that YouTube’s contribution to the viewer deciding to watch that programme, and therefore its share of the value chain, is the same as …
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Government Response Summary
The government has launched the Digital Markets Unit (DMU) and tasked it with developing a mandatory code of conduct to address harms from market dominance, including governing relationships between platforms and content producers like news publishers.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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