A public service for all : the BBC in the digital age
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A public service for all : the BBC in the digital age
(Cm, 6763)
TSO, c2006
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Note
"Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport by Command of Her Majesty, March 2006"
At head of title: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This white paper sets out the Government's plans for the BBC over the next charter period. The BBC Governors are to be replaced by the BBC Trust and an Executive Board. The Board will be responsible for delivering the services, and the Trust for holding it to account, and consulting widely with licence fee payers and industry. The paper confirms six new public purposes for the BBC: sustaining citizenship and civil society; promoting education and learning; stimulating creativity and cultural excellence, including film; reflecting the UK's nations, regions and communities; bringing the world to the UK and the UK to the world; and building digital Britain. The content of the BBC's output should aim to display at least one of five characteristics: high quality, challenging, original, innovative, and engaging. The BBC is to play a leading role in technological development, alongside the commercial sector, and in the switchover to digital, with the key outcome that all BBC licence fee payers can receive the BBC's digital services. BBC services will be run according to a "service licence", containing all the most important characteristics of an individual service.
All proposals for significant change to existing services or for new services will be subject to a public value test, with Ofcom providing a market impact assessment. The BBC will have to have regard to competition issues, follow a fair trading regime, and develop a new complaints system. The Corporation should continue to generate commercial income, providing the services fit with the BBC's public purposes, are efficient, protect the BBC brand, and avoid market distortion. The Government confirms the licence fee as the best way to fund the BCC, but will review this towards the end of the next Charter in 2016. Comments on this white paper and the drafts will be welcomed, with a closing date of 28 April 2006. The new Charter and Agreement will be finalised later in 2006.
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