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Taken together, these proposals seek to ensure audiences’ priorities of UK programmes, UK news and nations and regions news are served. To do that we are proposing to reduce the costs of obligations substantially in other areas, consistent with existing legislation.
On this experimental site we encourage you to leave informal comments alongside the Executive Summary of Ofcom's Second Public Service Broadcasting Review - Phase Two: preparing for the digital future, published on 25 September 2008.
Alternatively, you can download the full consultation document, and/or respond formally to the consultation (closing date 4 December 2008). You can also follow the debate on the PSB Review blog.
Trevor Lockwood on 28 November 2008 at 9:41am
The concern is the audience satisfaction measurement yardsticks used. With 60+ million people there is scope for a myriad range of choices. What we are trying to suppress is choice by insisting that people must accept what they are given. They will not do that, so stop trying to persuade us that they will.
The BBC, C4, ITV are all about retaining slices of a diminishing market, using a defunct model.
Small is beautiful.