A New Funding Model for the BBC?
Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)
According to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), the BBC should ‘begin discussions over, and experimentation with, different funding models’ while maintaining its public service remit ‘associated with commissioning risk and editorial protection, and separated from commercial and political interest’. The RSE further argues that the Trust model cannot be sustained, but finds that the establishment of a separate regulator (rather than Ofcom) may be more appropriate.
RSE
'Policy-makers should be careful not to undermine or damage a delicate ecosystem of PSB'
Channel 4
Channel 4’s submission to A Future for Public Service Television Inquiry points out that we are ‘at a crucial moment in the history of Public Service Broadcasting in the UK – with potential for major decisions on the sector that could have long-term ramifications. It is imperative that decisions made in the coming months are taken with care and considerations and that nothing is done that would damage the sector that has served as the foundation on which the success of many of the UK’s creative industries are built.’
Channel 4 evidence
Public Service Broadcasting: A View from Scotland
Beveridge, Robert
Robert Beveridge (Visiting Professor, University of Sassari) recommends that the Scottish Parliament should be ‘fully responsible for media policy and media regulation in and for Scotland, including BBC Scotland’. According to Beveridge, there needs to be more investment and more programming in Edinburgh, as it is ‘the only capital city of its stature and status in the world to have such a poor broadcasting infrastructure.’
Robert Beveridge
Towards Valuing Television Which Engages Us with the Wider World
International Broadcasting Trust (IBT)
New international output on the PSB channels has been substantially decreased in the increasingly fragmented market, according to the International Broadcasting Trust (IBT), a media and education charity concerned with the engagement of UK citizens as global citizens. Alongside with the reduction of volume, IBT observes that the nature of international coverage has changed, with serious factual programmes being replaced by softer factual entertainment genres. Public service television, IBT argues ‘should be a platform for a range of voices and opinions which reflects the population of the UK and the wider world. This requirement should be reinforced by legislation’
International Broadcasting Trust
Broadcasting Policy in the Era of Global Value Chain-Oriented Industrialisation
Chalaby, Jean K.
According to Jean K. Chalaby (City University, London), ‘the global interdependence of contemporary industrial networks must be at the forefront of broadcasting policy, for the PSBs and for all the suppliers along the content chain’. Chalaby identifies the most pressing issues facing UK producers as being related to how they can build up on TV formats’ global success; how they can retain creativity and innovation in UK production, but also, whether TV producers and broadcasters should compete with global aggregators such as Netflix and YouTube.
Jean Chalaby