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Article: Competition for the BBC; Public-service broadcasting.(A new idea for public-service broadcasting)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2004
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The media regulator's radical-sounding new idea
EVERYTHING is changing in British television: viewers are adding dozens of channels to the old suite of five and using personal video recorders to cherry-pick schedules. In eight years' time the whole system will switch from analogue to digital. But amid the upheaval, one thing will remain constant: the government will carry on spending lots of money on public-service broadcasting.
Last week Ofcom, Britain's new media regulator, said in a report on public-service broadcasting that because of digital technology there will be less need in the future for television to be subsidised because the market will ...