Shadow UK Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has launched a paper setting out the opposition Conservative Party’s vision of the the future of public service broadcasting. The paper argues that offering a more diverse range of public service broadcasting is the key to ensuring Britain’s broadcasting sector remains successful - and Hunt stressed:
“We need structures that will maintain the creative diversity that has made British public service broadcasting famous throughout the world.”
The paper highlights current Conservative thinking on a number of proposals that would allow plurality of provision - with the options including top-slicing of the licence fee, the governance of the BBC, and deregulation of some aspects of commercial broadcasting.
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on Apr 2nd, 2008 at 08:31
A large proportion of the country don\’t object to the BBC, but
object to the licence fee, and the amount of people objecting
seems to be increasing year by year.
Therefore by the time the BBC\’s charter gets renewed, the
licence fee maybe finished off, so these Tory plans are
obsolete.
on Apr 2nd, 2008 at 23:12
I’m abosolutely against changing any of the BBC from its current form. What do the Tories know about broadcasting?