Information between 4th February 2024 - 14th April 2024
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Media Bill
90 speeches (44,454 words) 2nd reading Wednesday 28th February 2024 - Lords Chamber Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Mentions: 1: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) seek to boost the growth of our fantastic radio industry by reducing regulatory burdens and costs on commercial - Link to Speech 2: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) radio have a new regulatory framework. - Link to Speech 3: Lord Bishop of Leeds (Bshp - Bishops) radio and how we ensure that public service broadcasters deliver against their quotas”. - Link to Speech |
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Wednesday 20th March 2024
Oral Evidence - BBC, BBC, and BBC Culture, Media and Sport Committee Found: How do you respond to criticism that you are creating new stations that encroach on what commercial |
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Tuesday 19th March 2024
Oral Evidence - Global Radio, Global Radio, Acast, and Acast The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology - Communications and Digital Committee Found: I wonder how that is affecting the overall health of the commercial radio and commercial podcast market |
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Monday 18th March 2024
Written Evidence - Ofcom FON0063 - The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology - Communications and Digital Committee Found: Commercial radio services continue to feature news prominently. |
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Thursday 7th March 2024
Written Evidence - News UK FON0055 - The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology - Communications and Digital Committee Found: Among UK consumers, the research found that commercial radio, news publishers and commercial TV |
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Wednesday 21st February 2024
Written Evidence - Radiocentre FON0025 - The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology The future of news: impartiality, trust and technology - Communications and Digital Committee Found: Many listeners rely on the bulletins and the trusted information provided by commercial radio, as |
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Monday 19th February 2024
Written Evidence - News Media Association BBC0002 - The BBC's implementation of Across the UK Public Accounts Committee Found: Radiocentre spokesperson criticises the plans and accuses the BBC of "attempting to compete directly with commercial |
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Commercial Broadcasting: Radio
Asked by: Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Labour - Life peer) Monday 19th February 2024 Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the success of commercial radio in the UK. Answered by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport) His Majesty’s Government strongly supports a vibrant radio sector, including national and local commercial stations as well as community stations and the BBC, which between them provide a rich variety of choice for listeners across the UK. The UK’s commercial radio sector now accounts for approximately 55% of radio listening in the UK, according to figures published by RAJAR for Quarter 4 2023, with 39 million people tuning in to national or local commercial stations at least once a week. This compares to 42% of radio listening and 34 million listeners in Quarter 4 2013. The growth in commercial radio listening over the past 10 years is thanks to the investment the sector has made to develop and grow new services and its ability to adapt what it offers to listeners on digital radio or via internet-connected devices such as smart speakers. The measures in the Media Bill to reduce regulatory burdens on commercial radio and to secure protections for the carriage of radio on smart speaker devices are intended to help support and secure commercial radio’s long-term future. |
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Media Bill: HL Bill 44 of 2023–24 - LLN-2024-0006
Feb. 12 2024 Found: update the regulatory framework governing public service broadcasting, on-demand programme services and commercial |
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Feb. 12 2024
Media Bill: HL Bill 44 Media Bill 2023-24 Briefing papers Found: update the regulatory framework governing public service broadcasting, on-demand programme services and commercial |
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Jan. 31 2024
Letter from Lord Parkinson to Lords regarding the measures in the Bill. Media Bill 2023-24 Will write letters Found: -demand, in line with requirements on live television; o reduce regulatory burdens and costs on commercial |
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Thursday 28th March 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Source Page: March 2024 – update on the government’s work to improve the quality of social housing Document: March 2024 – update on the government’s work to improve the quality of social housing (webpage) Found: Adverts were running on social media, online search engines, commercial radio (like Heart and Kiss), |
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Thursday 29th February 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Source Page: February 2024 – update on the government’s work to improve the quality of social housing Document: February 2024 – update on the government’s work to improve the quality of social housing (webpage) Found: On 5 February, we launched a second round of advertising on commercial radio (on stations like Heart |
| Department Publications - News and Communications |
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Thursday 21st March 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Source Page: Expert panel appointed to advise on the BBC’s future funding Document: Expert panel appointed to advise on the BBC’s future funding (webpage) Found: led the independent review into press sustainability in 2019; and Siobhan Kenny, the former CEO of commercial |
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Thursday 8th February 2024
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Source Page: Culture Secretary speech at the Ad Association LEAD conference Document: Culture Secretary speech at the Ad Association LEAD conference (webpage) Found: industries actually provides: cheaper newspapers and magazines for readers to enjoy; your favourite hits on commercial |
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Wednesday 21st February 2024
Department for Business and Trade Source Page: Small Business Leadership Programme (SBLP) evaluation reports Document: Evaluation of the Small Business Leadership Programme (SBLP): phase 1 report - interim delivery evaluation (PDF) Found: SMEs via email and social media, and more open communication methods through adverts online and on commercial |