Sentences with phrase «commercial broadcasters»

It was a gigantic and permanent public subsidy for commercial broadcasters, since the frequencies were (and according to the Supreme Court, still are) acknowledged to be common public property.

Maria Eagle also criticises the government over reports it is considering forcing the corporation to sell off its stake in commercial broadcaster UKTV

I don't have a problem with this, but I'm trying to make a case that UK consumers fund commercial broadcasters just as certainly as we fund the BBC.

Many other forces were at work, including the powerful commercial broadcasters who wanted to be free from regulation at least as much as the religious broadcasters.

But actually, I don't think the BBC's funding gives it any privilege over commercial broadcasters.

This includes a 70 per cent fall in spend by commercial broadcasters on children's television.

Noting that «most commercial broadcasters have abandoned their public - service obligations where children are concerned,» Action for Children's Television, a Boston - based advocacy group for children's programming, last month honored 13 programs or series for «achievement in children's television.»

Other commercial broadcasters can be fined up to a maximum of five per cent of their qualifying revenue.

His secondment to ITV plc - the UK's original commercial broadcaster and FTSE 100 company with productions in the UK, US and many other countries around the world — appealed because it meant working at the actual tv studios at London Television Centre, which sounded fun, he says, and because it was a commercial seat, his area of interest.

If we think certain regulations are good for the BBC, why are they not good for commercial broadcasters, and vice versa?

The Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA) reported that the multi-channel sector has doubled in employment over the last decade.

To boycott a commercial broadcaster I'd have to invest a lot of time and effort to investigate the advertising spend of every retailer and product I use.

But let's be clear, the simple act of purchasing food / heat / light and other essentials means I am funding commercial broadcasters, because it would be practically impossible to buy most of life's necessities without purchasing things whose price includes the cost of advertising on commercial broadcasters.

So, it would be for the people who impose regulations on the BBC to explain to you why those regulations should / should not apply to commercial broadcasters.

I don't mean to justify or reject any regulations - just asking if there's a good reason why different regulations should apply to the BBC than commercial broadcasters, when the UK consumer funds both.

When you say «customers are free to buy them or decide not to buy them» I think my point was, when it comes to commercial broadcasters in the UK, we consumers have in all practical terms lost that ability.

The commercial broadcasters have to pay into an education fund that support Internet access in public school — call me a social welfare drone, but let's tax Google and Microsoft to pump some money into aforementioned public media and public libraries.