Swimming, not drowning
For those two readers who are avidly following recent policy (non-)developments in the world of broadcasting, my cursory reading of the Digital Britain interim report published today is that things are still under review.
Of the 22 action points so carefully detailed by broadcast minister Stephen Carter and team, the ones that relate directly to TV are 14, 15 and 16 which basically say that mergers in local/regional media are under review, terms of trade between indies and broadcasters are under review, and so is the question of “whether a long-term and sustainable second public service organisation providing competition for quality to the BBC can be defined and designed”. And partly based on Channel 4.
So today’s report changes nothing. More policy wonking to come. That’s really all lucecannon has to say on the matter because, let’s face it, there are no hits to be had from policy.
