17 Dec 2004
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The government has broadened its successful NHS Direct service into millions of living rooms across...-free, with the government pledging a massive £15m spend on the channel over three years. Reid said: “For the first time ...
16 Dec 2004
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by the Government. "But the proposals don't go far enough. I'd like to see an independent body to regulate ...
Governance The Committee was heavily critical of the BBC’s existing structure, which has been in place ...
this operation independently. Kaufman added that “the best way of sorting out the governance of the BBC ...
14 Dec 2004
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recommendations to the government over issues such as food advertising, the Advertising Standards Authority had ...
14 Dec 2004
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Given the previous history of bodies set up by government to monitor any area – let alone one so volatile as media – it was surely only a matter of time before fists were flying. Well, for fear ...
in mind most government-funded regulators in the past have had all the subtlety of a sledge hammer ...
14 Dec 2004
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of the biggest criticisms of the government’s remit for Ofcom a year ago was that it did not have more direct control over the governance of the BBC. Ofcom’s ongoing review of public service broadcasting – which Tessa Jowell has said will be a key part of the Government’s decision making over Charter renewal ...
14 Dec 2004
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in themagazines market. Thompson maintains the decisions were not motivated by negotiations with the Government ...
five years, 10 years from now,” Thompson says. “The BBC hasn’t in any way been pressured by government or badgered by government to do any of this; this is our view of the right path for the BBC. “Clearly, if you ...
14 Dec 2004
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regulation and governance, and while Ofcom is not going to get the BBC, a solution is still in hot dispute ...
13 Dec 2004
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to the secretary of state for Culture, Media and Sport – is published as part of the government’s review of digital ...
07 Dec 2004
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of the government’s Charter Review process.
07 Dec 2004
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-term success of any product is governed by a combination of the correct packaging mixed with the right content ...