The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons is to hold a short inquiry into the BBC World Service. The World Service broadcasts in 42 languages, including English, reaching an estimated 320 million people globally each week. Most of the World Service’s global audience access the World Service in its local language. BBC […]
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has announced plans to broaden the scope of the UK’s media mergers regime, updating it for the digital age to reflect modern news consumption habits and better protect media freedom and plurality. The plans will allow for greater scrutiny in the public interest of deals to purchase UK online news […]
Investigators have searched the offices of Netflix in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud, a French judicial source had told Reuters. The French investigation is beingn carried out by the PNF (National Financial Prosecutor’s Office). Dutch authorities were simultaneously searching the company’s European headquarters in Amsterdam, the French […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally found that a multi-billion-pound commitment to upgrade the merged company’s network across the UK, including the roll-out of 5G, combined with short-term customer protections could solve competition concerns identified in September 2024 and allow the merger to go ahead. The CMA investigation – led by an […]
Stuart Andrew has been appointed Shadow Culture Secretary by newly-elected Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch. Andrew is the MP for Daventry, and has been an MP continually since May 2010. In September 2022, he became Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and was reappointed to that role in […]
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons has published the Government response to the report on creator remuneration from the committee in the last Parliament. The report, published in April 2024, concluded that many successful musicians, actors, writers and visual artists were struggling to make a living as a result […]
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has welcomed confirmation in the Budget of the government’s commitment to support the creative industries – as part of the Industrial Strategy – recognising the key role it can play in economic growth. The creative industries are worth £125 billion (€148bn) to the UK economy and were named as one […]
The UK House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee is to continue work from the last Parliament examining the challenges faced by the British film and high-end television industry and how the sector and its workforce can be better supported. The British film and high-end TV inquiry follows on from the previous inquiry started […]
The UK Government has confirmed the appointment of Tamara Ingram, OBE, and Lord Allan of Hallam to the Board of comms regulator Ofcom. Ingram, who will join the Board as Deputy Chair for a four-year term, has had an extensive career across advertising, marketing and digital communication spanning over 35 years. She has held several […]
A Russian court has fined Google two undecillion roubles – a two followed by 36 zeroes – for restricting Russian state media channels on YouTube. That is considerably more than the $2 trillion Google is worth. In fact, according to the IMF, it is greater than the world’s GDP. The fine has reached this make […]