Tuesday 30 June, 10am,
Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee continues
its BBC Charter Review inquiry with a session exploring both the
views of other major broadcasters and the role of the BBC in
delivering news.
During the first half of the session with representatives from
ITV, Channel 4 and Sky, the committee is likely to continue
discussions from previous weeks about whether there should be
changes to the way in which the BBC is funded.
MPs could ask about the benefits and drawbacks of extending the
licence fee to all devices, moving to a household levy or
introducing a subscription-based model. Witnesses could also be
asked about the impact on other broadcasters of the BBC taking
advertising revenue.
There could also be questions about possible collaborations, such
as opening up the iPlayer to other broadcasters, and about
consolidation in the TV sector more generally.
The second part of the session will be centred on the provision
of news by the BBC. There could be questions about the
corporation's role providing local news and its impact on other
publishers and about misinformation, disinformation and media
literacy.
Further questions could centre on the use of AI in the delivery
of news and the importance of the BBC World Service
Following the publication of the government's broadcasting green
paper this week, the committee could also use the session to ask
about the issue of prominence for public service media content,
including news, on video sharing platforms and social media.
The committee's BBC Royal
Charter Review inquiry was launched in March after the
Government kicked off the review process with the launch of its consultation
in December.
Witnesses
At 10am
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MBE, Chief
Commercial Affairs Officer and MD Paralympics, Channel 4
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Magnus Brooke, Director of Strategy Policy and
Regulation, ITV
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, Group Managing
Director of Corporate Affairs, Sky
At 11am
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Jessica Cecil, former BBC Chief of Staff and
journalist, and Chatham House
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Theo Bamber, Chief Executive, News Media
Association
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Stewart Purvis CBE, Former Editor-in-Chief of
ITN and Ofcom regulator for Content and Standards
