Campaign

Defend pub­lic ser­vice media in 2010

 

 

 

     

  • Does it bother you that only 1% of pro­grammes avail­able to chil­dren in Great Britain and North­ern Ire­land are orig­i­nal, first-run pro­grammes made here in the UK? [Ofcom, The Future of Children’s Tele­vi­sion Pro­gram­ming, 2007*]
  • Does it bother you that there has been a £500 mil­lion drop in invest­ment in orig­i­nal pub­lic ser­vice pro­gram­ming since 2003? [Ofcom, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Mar­ket Report, 2009**]
  • Would you like to see programme-makers har­ness the power of new, dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy to cre­ate a strong, demo­c­ra­tic civil soci­ety, and to help a range of groups and indi­vid­u­als around the coun­try meet their cul­tural needs, and make and access con­tent that reflects the world around them?

If so, why not  join our cam­paign to defend pub­lic ser­vice media in 2010?

What can I do to help?

We’re urg­ing peo­ple to write to their MPs and Prospec­tive Par­lia­men­tary Can­di­dates (PPCs) ahead of the Gen­eral Elec­tion to raise aware­ness of the impor­tance of pub­lic ser­vice media, and make sure it’s on the agenda as an elec­tion issue.

You can write your own let­ter or email from scratch, or this tem­plate  [Word doc 42.5KB] may give you some ideas. (Doc­u­ment also con­tains infor­ma­tion on iden­ti­fy­ing your con­stituency, MPs and PPCs)

Alter­na­tively, why not email all of your can­di­dates at once using our quick and easy new tool, hosted by our friends at 38 Degrees?

 

Let’s get the debate started: ques­tions for par­lia­men­tary candidates

Are you or your organ­i­sa­tion attend­ing any brief­ings or ques­tion and answer ses­sions with your MPs or PPCs? If so, here are some ques­tions you might like to ask [Word doc, 27KB]. Want to tell us what your can­di­date said? Email us to tell us more, or post to this web­site or our Face­book group.

What else can I do?

The BBC Trust is cur­rently hold­ing a pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion on the future strat­egy for the BBC.

CCPSB will be respond­ing to the con­sul­ta­tion, applaud­ing the BBC’s efforts to con­tinue to make BBC ser­vices avail­able to all licence fee pay­ers, and take mea­sures to increase orig­i­nal con­tent and decrease the num­ber of imports on TV.

How­ever, we will also be urg­ing the BBC to take issues of qual­ity and diver­sity seri­ously. As such we will be rec­om­mend­ing that they do not cut ser­vices such as The Asian Net­work, which pro­motes cul­tural diversity.

You can sub­mit your own response to the con­sul­ta­tion on the BBC Trust web­site before 25th May 2010.

 

 

*Fig­ures from Ofcom, The Future of Children’s Tele­vi­sion Pro­gram­ming, 2007, based on 2006 fig­ures, in which there were 112,685 total hours of children’s pro­gram­ming across all licenced chan­nels (Fig­ure 5 and point 2.2.7), and 1,253 hours of first-run orig­i­nal con­tent (fig­ure 7).
**Fig­ures from Ofcom, Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Mar­ket Report, 2009, Invest­ment in orig­i­nal pro­duc­tion by the five main net­works, BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Chan­nel 4 and Five, declined from £3.1 bil­lion in 2003/4 to £2.6 bil­lion in 2008, amount­ing to an over­all loss of £500 mil­lion of invest­ment dur­ing this period
 
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