A FUTURE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE TELEVISION CONTENT AND PLATFORMS IN A DIGITAL WORLD

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A FUTURE FOR PUBLIC SERVICE TELEVISION EDINBURGH BELFAST CARDIFF LONDON B B C 124
CONTENT AND PLATFORMS IN A DIGITAL WORLD “TOO MANY DECISION MAKERS CONTINUE TO WALK THE SAME METROPOLITAN STREETS AND EAT IN THE SAME RESTAURANTS TO TRULY APPRECIATE, AND HENCE REFLECT, A FAST CHANGING UK.” patterns, then resistance to change is not a luxury they can afford and we hope that the existing pilots for a Scottish Six come to fruition very soon. We believe that Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish Six O’Clock News programmes on the BBC are long overdue. Early evening news bulletins remain incredibly popular and modern technology would make a ‘dragand-drop’ hour-long bulletin easy to deliver and provide an appropriately tailored mix of international and national news that may even help to address the falling rate of news consumption of 18-34 year olds. As the former head of nations and regions for Channel 4, Stuart Cosgrove, argued at our event in Edinburgh: “I believe that Scotland is a country rich in stories, that we deserve the dignity of a dedicated news service and that television news is failing to connect with younger viewers and needs to address its own shortcomings.” 381 Demands for more autonomy – for the ability to have some say over when to opt out and what to spend money on – are less representative of a call to eviscerate the UK state than evidence for Cosgrove of “a nation saying we want to do better and be better, but we think that you need to help us be better because Westminster holds all of the keys to the unlocking of the creativity of this nation in terms of spend and allocation, in terms of the structures and the systems.” So while we welcome the quotas for network spend for and the creation of new commissioners in the nations, we believe that real commissioning power should follow shifts in production. Too many decision makers continue to walk the same metropolitan (and sometimes suburban) streets and eat in the same restaurants to truly appreciate, and hence reflect, a fast changing UK. For this to happen, commissioners need to be in charge of budgets that should be devolved with them. There is no particular reason why drama commissioning could not be based in Cardiff, comedy commissioning in Glasgow and children’s commissioning in Belfast. If, as it is mooted, Tony Hall is set to restructure the BBC around new divisions focused on education, information and entertainment, 382 then a new opportunity arises to devolve power via commissioning budgets. We also welcome the government’s commitment in its BBC white paper to main minority language television services. Indeed, such programming may be more important than ever in a multichannel age and it can hardly be accused of lacking ‘distinctiveness’. The arguments for S4C were originally made in 1982 when the UK had just three channels. “How much stronger”, asked S4C’s Huw Jones at our meeting in Cardiff, “are those 381 Comments at Inquiry event, Royal Society of Edinburgh, April 13, 2016. 382 Steve Hewlett, ‘Tony Hall’s grand reorganisation of the BBC “is playing with fire”’, Guardian, May 1, 2016. 125
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Contents Foreword by David Puttnam
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To instruct democracy, if possible
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Welcome Television is leading a cha
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PSB channels 71.9% All other channe
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Why television matters Television i
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1982 1990s 2012 The BBC-ITV duopoly
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Time for action Today’s policymak
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The multichannel revolution Perhaps
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The BBC For most people, the BBC is
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Channel 4 If the BBC is the most im
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Only 8% of Channel 4’s total spen
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Page 103 and 104: Television and diversity We have ea
Page 107 and 108: THE PEOPLE SHOULD BE TELEVISED If t
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Page 153 and 154: Conclusion Television is changing.
Page 155 and 156: Recommendations General The UK’s
Page 161 and 162: Appointing the BBC board Sir David
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Inquiry events Do we still need pub
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Acknowledgements Inquiry Report Con
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