Tuesday 3 March, 10am,
Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster
BBC executives appear before the Culture, Media and Sport
Committee as MPs explore the changing ways in which
young people watch television and video.
The session, part of the children's TV and video
content inquiry, will examine the corporation's role in
commissioning and producing programming and its strategy for
using platforms such as YouTube and TikTok.
Written evidence submitted
to the inquiry by the BBC highlights how the broadcaster is
the biggest provider of television content for young people in
the UK and provides most of the output from public service
broadcasters, which has fallen by half since 2010. It also notes
how the majority of children's TV and video viewing time is now
on US-based Subscription Video on Demand services and platforms
such as YouTube.
MPs are likely to ask about the implications of a fall in linear
TV viewing and the BBC's use of both iPlayer and external
platforms for broadcasting content for young people. There could
also be questions on the corporation's strategic partnership with
YouTube and the issue of prominence and discoverability of
children's content.
Other topics that could be raised include how the BBC ensures
output represents the diversity of the UK and the case for
enhanced tax credits for culturally relevant children's content.
The Committee previously took
evidence from Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce and
Greg Childs from the Children's Media Foundation, and held
sessions on the challenges faced by those
producing content and the health, learning and
development aspects of what children watch and how they watch
it.
Witnesses
At 10am:
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Patricia Hidalgo, Director, BBC Children's and
Education
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Iain Bundred, Director of Policy & Public
Affairs, BBC
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Kate Morton, Head of Commissioning and
Acquisitions 0-6, BBC
