All Regulation articles – Page 96
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NewsNUJ close to ITV regions decision
The National Union of Journalists is hours away from deciding if it will go into dispute with ITV over the proposed cuts to the broadcaster's regional news staff.
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NewsOfcom criticises Sky's Virgin campaign
BSkyB has been censured by Ofcom for asking viewers to put pressure on Virgin Media during carriage negotiations over the satellite broadcaster's basic channels.
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NewsVaizey supports ITV regional news plan
Shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey has backed ITV's withdrawal from regional news, and cautioned MPs who have criticised the commercial broadcaster's plans.
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NewsRobinson: BBC may become Mugabe-figure
Time Team presenter Tony Robinson has raised fears that the BBC could become a Robert Mugabe-figure under new proposals for it to form partnerships with other public service broadcasters.
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NewsJohnson warns of cutbacks if C4 privitised
Privatisation would “tear the heart out of Channel 4”, leading to cutbacks in news, current affairs and arts, chairman Luke Johnson has warned.
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NewsStick with regional quota, MPs tell ITV
Forty MPs from across the UK are demanding that ITV commits to spending 50% of its network programming budget outside of London.
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NewsCarter revisits C4 privatisation plan
The prospect of Channel 4 being privatised to resolve its budget shortfall has re-emerged after new communications, technology and broadcasting minister Stephen Carter gave his first interviews.
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NewsTories back licence fee
The Conservatives have revealed they will retain the BBC licence fee, at least in the short term, if they oust Labour at the next general election.
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NewsOfcom: Lyons misunderstands our role
Ofcom has accused BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons of misunderstanding its role and its proposals for the future of public service broadcasting.
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NewsLyons criticises Ofcom over PSB review
BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons has criticised the scale of expectation that the public service broadcasting review has placed on Channel 4 and has ruled out backing any formal commercial deal between C4 and BBC Worldwide.
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FeaturesGrade plays a strong hand
ITV's boss raised the stakes last week when he challenged Ofcom to ease ITV's PSB burden otherwise the network would go it alone. Lucy Rouse asks if Michael Grade is seriously considering this option.
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NewsBBC to give government surplus suggestions
The BBC will get the first opportunity to say what should be done with any money left over from the cost of funding digital switchover after 2012.
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NewsDCMS to stay out of ITV regions row
The government has refused to intervene in the row over Ofcom's green light for ITV to drop its half-hour bulletins for the Border and Westcountry regions.
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NewsCommons poised for licence fee debate
Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs are expected to join forces this week to defeat a Tory backbench attempt to deprive the BBC of its licence fee income following digital switchover.
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CommentWeapons-Grade ammo
Ofcom told it’s my way or the highway as showdown looms over ITV regulation.
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NewsRTS Speech: Grade throws down PSB guantlet
ITV has thrown down the gauntlet to Ofcom - either ease its regulatory burden or risk losing it as a public service broadcaster.
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CommentBlog: Local TV is the very definition of PSB
Local TV is PSB. The rest of Europe gets it - but the UK, apparently, still doesn't, argues Peter Williams.
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NewsWhite men still dominate boards
Broadcasters are making modest improvements in their employment of minorities, but boards are increasingly dominated by white men.
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NewsSpeech: Michael Grade 8 October '08
RTS Patron breakfast speech by Michael Grade, executive chairman of ITV, on 8 October, 2008.
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NewsGrade: Non-PSB ITV is real option
ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has outlined two stark choices for the future of the broadcaster: guarantee to provide national news as a public service broadcaster or become a purely commercial brand with no guarantee of any kind of programming.