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Digital Britain: Attitudes to supporting non-BBC Regional News from the TV Licence Fee

Title
Digital Britain: Attitudes to supporting non-BBC Regional News from the TV Licence Fee
Date
9 Nov 2009
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Publisher
Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
Category
Research Papers; Surveys and Reports
Subject
Audience / User Research; Broadcasting; Funding; News; Regional Programming
Inactive
No
Description
A report prepared for the DCMS by TNS – BMRB Social Research. The research objectives were to: evaluate the degree of importance that the UK population attaches to plural provision of news in the nations, as well as locally and regionally; assess the extent to which TV licence holders support or oppose the principle of using the TV licence fee to fund public service content beyond the BBC, primarily for regional news bulletins; assess support or opposition towards setting out an agreed maximum percentage of the licence fee revenue to be set aside to fund essential public service content beyond the BBC. Three quarters of the public felt it important to have a choice of TV channels providing news programming about their nation or local area, with residents of the devolved nations feeling more strongly about this than residents of England.

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