Listed Events: Streaming

(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 that streaming services that do not have an Ofcom broadcasting licence cannot to (a) buy the rights for a listed event and (b) put them behind a paywall.


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

The draft Media Bill set out our intention to make qualification for listed events a Public Service Broadcaster-specific benefit.

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