All DCMS articles – Page 44
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FeaturesTax breaks clamour grows
The UK’s foremost high-end drama producers and directors have joined the call to arms for the TV tax break campaign.
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NewsDCMS calls for TV tax breaks
The DCMS has called on the Treasury to safeguard the future of British-made animation and high-end drama by introducing tax breaks, Broadcast has learned.
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News‘Tax breaks can earn the UK £1bn’
Tax breaks for British-made high-end drama would “transform” the industry and could yield a net return of £1bn annually to the UK economy, a report submitted to the government has claimed.
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CommentSurvival depends on tax breaks
Treasury must listen to the cause of British animation and drama.
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NewsGovernment to consider retransmission fees
The government is to consider whether broadcasters should pay to appear on paid-for platforms such as BSkyB as part of the Communications Bill, it has confirmed.
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NewsCRR set to stay for Comms Act
ITV is unlikely to be handed relief from its advertising trading restrictions, the Contract Rights Renewal scheme (CRR), in the government’s new Communications Act.
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NewsAutocue plugs production credentials
BVE: Autocue plans to use BVE to showcase its “complete, affordable end-to-end live production and newsroom workflow in support of the DCMS local TV initiative”.
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NewsAnimation UK urges tax breaks from Osborne
The makers of Wallace and Gromit, Peppa Pig and In the Night Garden have written to chancellor George Osborne urging him to create a “level playing field” for UK animators to compete on the world stage.
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NewsThompson turns table on tabloids over Frozen Planet
The BBC’s director general has turned the tables on tabloid reports of Frozen Planet fakery suggesting it has more to do with the corporation’s coverage of the Leveson inquiry than polar bears.
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NewsPatten: sacking Clarkson would be dangerous precedent
Sacking Jeremy Clarkson for saying public sector strikers should be shot would set dangerous precedents, the chairman of the BBC Trust has said.
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NewsIndies in frame to run first 20 local TV licences
Preston, Grimsby and Swansea are among 20 locations earmarked by Ofcom as the first to receive a local TV licence – and the government will consult on allowing indies to run them.
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NewsIndies call on Hunt to protect IP
Indies have urged culture secretary Jeremy Hunt not to reverse the current Terms of Trade and help protect their IP as part of the government’s Communications Review.
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NewsCanis to head up bid to build local TV network
Canis Media Group is planning to spearhead a co-operative bid to run the controversial multiplex company that culture secretary Jeremy Hunt wants created as part of his vision for local TV.
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The Broadcast InterviewRadio 4: The World at One
A longer format for Radio 4’s flagship show has given it more scope for in-depth interviews and analysis. It’s also made it feel ‘less rude’ to guests, Martha Kearney tells Ben Dowell.
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NewsDCMS eyes quotas shake-up
The government is investigating ways it could safeguard the future of small- to medium-sized indies in the new Communications Act.
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NewsBBC: no need for licence fee reform
The BBC is unlikely to call for a change to the scope of its licence fee remit until the next Charter renewal in 2016/17, Broadcast understands.
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CommentDQF: not all doom and gloom
BBC hasn’t had it as bad as other sectors, writes Andrew Harrison.
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NewsCreative England reveals board line up
BBC4 controller Richard Klein, Twofour chief executive Charles Wace and Maverick TV’s digital director Jonnie Turpie have joined the board of Creative England.
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NewsNAO wins full access to BBC accounts
The National Audit Office is to have access to any part of the BBC’s books it chooses, under new arrangements laid out by the government.