All DCMS articles – Page 55
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Licence fee decision due this afternoon
Smith expected to give verdict to Commons within the hour
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News Analysis - A regulation tie?
This autumn, a white paper will cover both broadcasting and telecommunications. David Wood and Katy Elliott look at the road ahead to new 'communications' legislation.
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Opinion - White paper may offer hope to BBC
There is hope for the BBC yet, as the Murdoch camp (incarnate in The Times and the Sun) ramps up its campaign against Greg Dyke and just about everything the corporation
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DCMS set to agree to extra BBC digital cash
The Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) is thought to have resolved to give the BBC most of the cash it wants to extend its digital services, but not News 24, writes John Lewis.
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Census takes snapshop of UK broadcasting
Age, ethnicity and disability will all come under the spotlight this summer as Skillset and the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) launch the first annual census of the UK broadcasting industry, writes Lucy Rouse.
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DCMS white paper inquiry
The culture, media & sport select committee is to conduct an inquiry into aspects of the communications white paper. The committee will focus on the development and regulation of radio, proposals
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Endemol lobbies for indie status
Endemol Entertainment UK is lobbying the Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) to allow it to regain its status as an independent production company, writes Ashley Davies.
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NEWBIGIN JOINS C4 CORPORATE RELATIONS FROM DCMS
John Newbigin is to become the new head of corporate relations at Channel 4 succeeding Sue Robertson, who is joining United News & Media. Newbigin joins C4 from the Department for
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Smith looks at telecoms
Media Secretary Chris Smith announced on Wednesday (1 December) that the next broadcasting bill will include a wide-ranging review of both broadcasting and telecommunications legislation for the first time in UK broadcast history, writes David Wood.
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OPINION - Fuzzy signals for Vivendi's liaison
Why has the Government only now decided to investigate Vivendi's purchase of a 24.5 per cent stake in BSkyB, even though this has been on the cards since the French group
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TV exports inquiry backs tax breaks
Flexible tax breaks and new merchandising rules would improve the UK's television exports, according to a draft version of the Government's inquiry seen by Broadcast this week.The wide-ranging report brings together
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Sarah Thane is ITC director of programmes and cable
On how we should approach the development of a media education strategy for our children.
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DCMS canvasses for RA post
Former EMI chairman Sir Colin Southgate and BPI director general John Deacon are among the names put forward by the radio industry as possible successors to outgoing Radio Authority chairman Sir Peter Gibbings, writes John Plunkett.
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INTERVIEW - The new cultural evolution
'Genuinely respected', 'a safe pair of hands', 'on top of his brief'. The broadcast industry, it seems, has a lot of time for Media Secretary Chris Smith.After more than two years
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DCMS' JONES TAKES POLICY POST AT PACT
Producers' alliance Pact has appointed Kris Jones, a broadcasting policy adviser at the Department of Culture, Media & Sport, as its new head of public affairs. Jones has worked at the
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BBC to sit new services test
The government has unveiled details of the tests the BBC must pass before launching new services just as it appointed consultants to assess BBC finances, writes John Lewis.
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£272m deficit prompts inquiry into TV market
Media Secretary Chris Smith has launched an inquiry into the TV programming market, including the 25 per cent indie production quota aimed at improving the UK industry's£272 million balance of
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Falling by the wayside
We may think we make the best TV in the world, but foreign buyers disagree. As the Government launches an inquiry into the issue, David Wood asks how UK TV can be made more exportable.
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Sales data 'must improve'
Distributors must release more detailed sales data to improve UK statistics on TV exports, according to the Department of Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), which has ordered an overhaul of official