With the race to replace Boris Johnson as next UK Prime Minister now down to the final two, bosses at BBC New Broadcasting House and Channel 4 Horseferry Road will be examining former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss’s record on public broadcasting in minute detail.
Both broadcasters took a battering from Johnson’s firebrand Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, via a recently announced review into the future of the BBC licence fee and, more existentially, legislation to privatize Channel 4. The pubcasters will now be hoping these drastic moves can be reversed.
Of concern to the BBC, however, Politico reported last week that Sunak has said in private that he would be willing to scrap the £159 (190) per year annual licence fee and look to alternative funding models when the BBC Charter expires in 2027. BBC bosses have said they are open to new models and are due to set...
Both broadcasters took a battering from Johnson’s firebrand Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, via a recently announced review into the future of the BBC licence fee and, more existentially, legislation to privatize Channel 4. The pubcasters will now be hoping these drastic moves can be reversed.
Of concern to the BBC, however, Politico reported last week that Sunak has said in private that he would be willing to scrap the £159 (190) per year annual licence fee and look to alternative funding models when the BBC Charter expires in 2027. BBC bosses have said they are open to new models and are due to set...
- 7/21/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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Government proposals to sell off publicly owned woodland have galvanised people from all walks of life into action. On Sunday 1,500 of them turned up at a rally in the Lake District's Grizedale forest, where Save Lakeland Forests organised a demo. Cheered on by mountain-bikers, tree-huggers and hill-walkers, two local MPs, Tim Farron and John Woodcock, ripped up copies of the public bodies reform bill that started this whole fuss.
As broadcaster Eric Robson, who has a sheep farm in Cumbria, explained to the crowd, the bill contains two clauses which, if passed into law, would allow the government to sell off all Forestry Commission land without public consultation. At the moment, the government is confined to 15% of it.
Mike Morton, a Save Lakeland Forests organiser, told the Westmorland Gazette the protest against forest sales...
Government proposals to sell off publicly owned woodland have galvanised people from all walks of life into action. On Sunday 1,500 of them turned up at a rally in the Lake District's Grizedale forest, where Save Lakeland Forests organised a demo. Cheered on by mountain-bikers, tree-huggers and hill-walkers, two local MPs, Tim Farron and John Woodcock, ripped up copies of the public bodies reform bill that started this whole fuss.
As broadcaster Eric Robson, who has a sheep farm in Cumbria, explained to the crowd, the bill contains two clauses which, if passed into law, would allow the government to sell off all Forestry Commission land without public consultation. At the moment, the government is confined to 15% of it.
Mike Morton, a Save Lakeland Forests organiser, told the Westmorland Gazette the protest against forest sales...
- 2/2/2011
- by Cathy Heffernan, Helen Carter
- The Guardian - Film News
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