The BBC - Too Big, Too Small or Just Right?

Political Quarterly

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 169-173+261

  Collins, Richard ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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1. Official doctrine defines the five major terrestrial television channels (BBC1, BBC2, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5), which together account for 80 per cent of UK television viewing, as public service broadcasting. Public service radio (some community services excepted) is provided solely by the BBC.
2. Raymond Kuhn and Mark Wheeler, 'The Future of the BBC Revisited', The Political Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 4, 1994, p. 434.
3. Report of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting (Annan Report), Cmnd 6753, 1977, para. 8.1 and p. 476; Report of the Committee on Broadcasting (Pilkington Report), Cmnd 1753, 1960, p. 288.
4. Report of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting (Annan Report), Cmnd 6753, 1977, para. 8.1 and p. 476; Report of the Committee on Broadcasting (Pilkington Report), Cmnd 1753, 1960, p. 288.
5. Sources for viewing and listening figures: Independent Television Commission, Memorandum to the Joint Scrutiny Committee on the Communications Bill, 23 April 2002, at www.itc.org.uk; also www.rajar.co.uk. Sources for public attitudes: BBC news release, 'Licence payers say "Yes" to proposals for new BBC public services', 23 Nov. 1999, at www.bbc.co.uk/info/news/ news202.htm; ITC Public Service Broadcasting: What Viewers Want, London, Independent Television Commission, 2001, at www.itc.org.uk/documents/psb_pdf.
6. Sources for viewing and listening figures: Independent Television Commission, Memorandum to the Joint Scrutiny Committee on the Communications Bill, 23 April 2002, at www.itc.org.uk; also www.rajar.co.uk. Sources for public attitudes: BBC news release, 'Licence payers say "Yes" to proposals for new BBC public services', 23 Nov. 1999, at www.bbc.co.uk/info/news/ news202.htm; ITC Public Service Broadcasting: What Viewers Want, London, Independent Television Commission, 2001, at www.itc.org.uk/documents/psb_pdf.
7. Sources for viewing and listening figures: Independent Television Commission, Memorandum to the Joint Scrutiny Committee on the Communications Bill, 23 April 2002, at www.itc.org.uk; also www.rajar.co.uk. Sources for public attitudes: BBC news release, 'Licence payers say "Yes" to proposals for new BBC public services', 23 Nov. 1999, at www.bbc.co.uk/info/news/ news202.htm; ITC Public Service Broadcasting: What Viewers Want, London, Independent Television Commission, 2001, at www.itc.org.uk/documents/psb_pdf.
8. Sources for viewing and listening figures: Independent Television Commission, Memorandum to the Joint Scrutiny Committee on the Communications Bill, 23 April 2002, at www.itc.org.uk; also www.rajar.co.uk. Sources for public attitudes: BBC news release, 'Licence payers say "Yes" to proposals for new BBC public services', 23 Nov. 1999, at www.bbc.co.uk/info/news/ news202.htm; ITC Public Service Broadcasting: What Viewers Want, London, Independent Television Commission, 2001, at www.itc.org.uk/documents/psb_pdf.
9. The Political Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 1, Jan.-March 1987, pp. 3-23; vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 11-19.
10. The Political Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 1, Jan.-March 1987, pp. 3-23; vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 11-19.
11. Merrill Lynch, UK Free-to-air Television, London, Merrill Lynch, 8 March 2002, p. 25.
12. BBC, Extending Choice: The BBC's Role in the New Broadcasting Age, London, BBC, 1992, p. 19.
13. ITC, Memorandum to the Joint Scrutiny Committee on the Communications Bill, 23 April 2002, p. 8.
14. J. Vickers, 'Competition Policy and Broad-casting', speech at the IEA conference on the future of broadcasting, 24 June 2002, at www.oft.gov.uk/news/speeches/2002/ competition+policy+and+broadcasting. htm, p. 4.
15. Lord Puttnam (Chair), Report of the Joint Committee on the Draft Communications Bill, vol. 1: Report, HL Paper 169-1, HC 876-I. London, Stationery Office, 2002, para. 215.
16. European Parliament and the Council, 2002, Official Journal, L 108/33, recital 27.
17. Department of Trade and Industry and Department of Culture, Media and Sport, The Draft Communications Bill: The Policy, Cm 5508-III, Norwich, Stationery Office, 2002, p. 5.