The House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport today published a report which said that the BBC’s commercial and public service functions should be independently regulated whilst calling for a streamlining of content regulation. This would include the abolition of the Broadcasting Standards Commission.
Following the release of The Multi-Media Revolution report, the ITC, OFT and OFTEL have announced the setting up of machinery to handle issues which cross the “traditional boundaries between regulators in the field of communications”.
A joint statement from the watchdogs says: “In the rapidly developing communications market, we need arrangements which will help give clarity to industry; keep down the regulatory burden; and ensure that important issues do not fall through gaps.”
To this end a new group of senior officials, to be called the Standing Committee on Competition in Communication, will meet regularly to discuss current issues.
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