There has been a downturn in TV advertising revenue that has hit various UK channels, and the BBC has also had to deal with two years of having the licence fee frozen during the pandemic. Director of BBC iPlayer and channels Dan McGolpin told the Edinburgh TV Festival on Wednesday that there are “dangers about gatekeeping” under the new Media Bill, which updates broadcasting laws for the streaming age. He said: “So if you look at the Media Act that has now passed, which is fantastic, but there’s a lot of interpretation there.
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in fact, it enshrines appropriate prominence for the PSBs (public service broadcasters) in those places. “But how that’s interpreted is still slightly open to question. We need to look at that .
.. in the end, we all want a healthy PSB ecology to live alongside streamers, and that’s good competition.
“That’s closest to the golden age you’re talking about. That may not happen unless we ensure that those PSB programmes do get seen. “So there are some risks there.
I do think we need to support the media act and make sure it’s followed through.” He also suggested that tax rules should be changed. “I think we need initiatives as well, like specific things like comedy, for example, you only get tax breaks if it’s super high end, but actually, very few people are investing in comedy any more, the BBC wants to, but why should it only be tax breaks at the very high end? “If you want that to be a successful genre, and.