A Future for Public Service Media

With continuing wide interest in the purpose and funding of public service media, including the BBC, Robin  Foster has set out some of the choices facing PSMs in an article for InterMedia, the journal of the International Institute of Communications.

 
Robin suggests PSMs should consider hybrid funding, more investment in on-demand content, fewer linear networks, and a twin-track focus on news and popular local content.  Whatever strategies are chosen, he argues, PSMs face tough times ahead, especially in smaller markets.

A Future for Public Service Television

In this submission to the ‘A Future for Public Service Television’ inquiry, Robin Foster considers the future relevance of PST, its appropriate scale and how it should best be structured to ensure ongoing success

A new framework for content regulation - getting the post-Leveson deal right

Tim Suter has authored a short paper on the changing role of content regulation in a post-Leveson world.

You can download the paper here.

Changing news consumption and implications for plurality

In this report prepared for News International and submitted to the Leveson Inquiry, Robert Kenny reviews changes in the 'chain of influence' between news proprietors and citizens, and the implications for plurality legislation.

Children's TV tax credits

On behalf of Pact, Communications Chambers prepared a paper setting out the case for a tax credit for children's TV production in the UK.

This was an important component of Pact's successful campaign to secure such a credit, which was announced by the Chancellor in December 2014.