Public Service Broadcasting

(asked on 16th October 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department is taking steps to ensure the future provision of public service content on linear broadcast services.


Answered by
John Whittingdale Portrait
John Whittingdale
This question was answered on 19th October 2023

The Government recognises the crucial role that linear broadcast services, including digital terrestrial television services, play in the wider UK broadcasting system, in particular in helping ensure that public service content continues to be widely available free-to-air to all audiences.

All of the UK’s public service broadcasters (PSBs) are required by law to operate at least one linear television service and must offer those service(s) to digital terrestrial, satellite and cable television providers.

In addition, the Government’s draft Media Bill, published on 29 March 2023, will amend the public service remit for television to make explicit in law the requirement on our PSBs to make their public service content available to as many members of the public in the United Kingdom as reasonably practicable.

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