THE question of who, in the future, will deliver the likes of news and children’s programmes on television, other than the BBC, is to be the subject of a second review by the broadcasting regulators, Ofcom.
The review has been ordered ahead of schedule because of fears that – because they are either very expensive to make or don’t attract sufficient advertising revenue – some types of ‘public service programming’ will become a casualty of an imminent switch-over to multi-channel, digital television.
This review is expected to conclude the year after next.
