policy areas: broadcasting
New technology is transforming the broadcasting landscape. From the point of view of the consumer, there is more choice, better content and more ways of accessing it. The right response is clear: as the market provides more, the state should do less.
Public intervention should be focussed on where there is genuine 'market failure' and the remit and funding of the BBC should reflect this.
Recent CPS publications have examined the future of public service broadcasting and reform of the BBC. The Centre's Broadcasting Forum also considers the future shape of broadcasting regulation and the role of government in delivering high-speed broadband.
Relevant publications and articles:
- To inform, educate and entertain? British broadcasting in the 21st Century by Martin Le Jeune (2009), with related articles in The Guardian and on ConservativeHome
- How to Save the BBC by Antony Jay (2008)
- Saving the BBC - article by Sam Talbot Rice (2008)
- Politics, Policy and the Internet by Robert Colvile (2008)
- Confessions of a Reformed BBC Producer by Antony Jay (2007)
Relevant events:
- A Digital Revolution: Where next for media policy? - seminar at Conservative Party Conference 2009
- Collaboration or Control? Politics and the Internet in the 21st Century – seminar at Conservative Party Conference 2008
- Politics, Policy and the Internet - seminar with George Osborne MP (March 2008)