CCPSB

14 Jan­u­ary 2010

Don Fos­ter MP: “The licence fee is prob­a­bly the best of the options cur­rently avail­able”. Don Fos­ter was respond­ing to com­ments by CCPSB’s Car­ole Tongue and Inde­pen­dent TV Exec­u­tive Pro­ducer Peter Bazel­gette on the future of the licence fee and BBC fund­ing. You can see the full inter­view on the Daily Pol­i­tics web­site.

17 Sep­tem­ber 2009

Pro­fes­sor Steven Bar­nett: “Any gen­uine attempt to estab­lish the views of licence fee pay­ers should be applauded. This, how­ever, was lit­tle more than a poorly exe­cuted gov­ern­ment exer­cise in PR under the guise of bona fide opin­ion research.” Pro­fes­sor Bar­nett was com­ment­ing on the recent research released by DCMS. You can read the full arti­cle at guardian.co.uk.

17 Sep­tem­ber 2009

Jeremy Dear: “It is an indict­ment of our pub­lic pol­icy processes that content-related indus­tries are mush­room­ing in size while the rev­enues avail­able to con­tent cre­ators is tum­bling. It is a betrayal of our oblig­a­tion to ensure that we have a plu­ral­is­tic, diverse and inde­pen­dent news media.” Jeremy Dear was com­ment­ing on alter­na­tives to top-slicing. Read more at guardian.co.uk.

17 Sep­tem­ber 2009

Sir Michael Lyons: “At least we had the courage to ask [the pub­lic] for their views. Why didn’t you?” Lyons com­ments were aimed at the Gov­ern­ment over its refusal to ask view­ers and lis­ten­ers if they would like to see licence fee money ear­marked to meet the cost of dig­i­tal switchover returned to them. Fur­ther details are avail­able at guardian.co.uk.

29 August 2009

John Whit­ting­dale MP: Dig­i­tal Britain is con­tro­ver­sial and will not get through in its entirety. It is extremely urgent to address but there is a dan­ger it will run out of time. More details of this story are avail­able at guardian.co.uk

22 July 2009

John Simp­son: top-slicing “could be the most seri­ous blow ever inflicted on the BBC.” John Simp­son was quoted by Telegraph.co.uk fol­low­ing an arti­cle he wrote for the BBC’s in-house mag­a­zine, Ariel. 

14 July 2009

Sir Michael Lyons: “It is indeed sur­pris­ing that a Sec­re­tary of State who has just started a pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion exer­cise should give the impres­sion that he has already made his mind up so firmly.” The Times has more details on this story.

High­lights from 2008

Stephen Fry defend­ing PSB and oppos­ing top-slicing

Come­dian, actor and writer Stephen Fry shares his thoughts on the future role of pub­lic ser­vice broadcasting.

Sir David Attenborough’s speech on the future of PSB

Find out what David Atten­bor­ough had to say about the future of Pub­lic Ser­vice broad­cast­ing on the BBC web­site.