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25/09/2008
Plans For ITV To Reduce Public Service Broadcasts
ITV's obligations as a public service broadcaster to provide regional programmes, including news bulletins could be relaxed under proposals by broadcasting watchdog Ofcom.
ITV1 programmes made outside of London could be reduced from 50% to 35%.
The proposals are part of the second phase of Ofcom's review into public service broadcasting, launched in the run-up to the digital switchover.
The advertising slowdown is considered to have put pressure on the main commercial broadcasters such as ITV, Channel 4 and Five to meet public service programming requirements.
Channels other than the BBC would need between £145m and £235m of additional public funding by 2012 to maintain current public service levels Ofcom have said.
Under the proposals ITV Wales, STV and UTV, peak-time news output would remain the same, but the minimum volume of non-news programmes in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland would be halved to one and a half hours a week.
ITV has welcomed Ofcom's proposals: "We have consistently argued that the regulatory costs and commercial benefits of holding the ITV plc licences need to be rebalanced between now and analogue switch-off in 2012."
Ofcom will release its final recommendations early next year.
See: ITV 'Compromise' Over News Services
(GK/JM)
ITV1 programmes made outside of London could be reduced from 50% to 35%.
The proposals are part of the second phase of Ofcom's review into public service broadcasting, launched in the run-up to the digital switchover.
The advertising slowdown is considered to have put pressure on the main commercial broadcasters such as ITV, Channel 4 and Five to meet public service programming requirements.
Channels other than the BBC would need between £145m and £235m of additional public funding by 2012 to maintain current public service levels Ofcom have said.
Under the proposals ITV Wales, STV and UTV, peak-time news output would remain the same, but the minimum volume of non-news programmes in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland would be halved to one and a half hours a week.
ITV has welcomed Ofcom's proposals: "We have consistently argued that the regulatory costs and commercial benefits of holding the ITV plc licences need to be rebalanced between now and analogue switch-off in 2012."
Ofcom will release its final recommendations early next year.
See: ITV 'Compromise' Over News Services
(GK/JM)
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