Media Standards Trust

Summaries of research into what viewers understand by public service broadcasting, and what they want and expect from PSB channels in the future.

Source: ITC, ITC

Jan-01

Keywords: PSB, television, public view

David Morrison and Michael Svennevig's 126 page report includes interviews, focus groups and an NOP survey. Its aims are to find out what the media and the public understand by 'public interest' and '...

Source: ITC, ITC

Mar-02

Keywords: PSB, privacy, taste & decency, public view, the public good, news values

Review commissioned by OFCOM after Channel 4 suggested that by 2009 a funding shortfall would limit its ability to fulfil its public service obligations. LEK review (133 pages) supports some of Channe...

Source: LEK, LEK Consulting LLP

April 2007

Keywords: LEK, OFCOM, Channel 4, Financial Review, PSB

Responses to the consultation document 'New News, Future News' released by OFCOM in July. Responses fall into: - Issues surrounding plurality of news - The economic sustainability of news - Concerns ...

Source: OFCOM, Ofcom

October 2007

Keywords: news, future, plurality, PSB, sustainability

Report feeding into OFCOM assessment of need for intervention to perpetuate Channel 4's commitment to public service broadcasting. Assesses the evolution of Channel 4's remit, delivery to that remit, ...

Source: OFCOM, OFCOM

April 2007

Keywords: OFCOM, Channel 4, Remit, PSB

Report on the first of a biannual series of practitioner symposia to reflect on existing provision of current affairs and how this was changing. Records that current affairs output across terrestrial ...

Source: OFCOM, Ofcom

Jul-06

Keywords: current affairs, television, PSB

The first in an annual series that aims to provide an evidence base for OFCOM to monitor the delivery of public service broadcasting (PSB). A factual account of broadcast hours, viewing figures and au...

Source: OFCOM, OFCOM

Mar-2007

Keywords: public service broadcasting, PSB, OFCOM