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Digital Britain  l  Media Ownership  l  Public Sector Competition  |  BBC Local
 
 
 
 
BBC Local
 
The local media sector has long been concerned by the BBC’s plans for local news services, funded by the licence fee. The NS has made a series of submissions on the BBC Charter review, BBC Local TV and BBC online.
 
 NS Response to BBC Local Video Proposal 

 Links to media stories covering the BBC Local issue

 
23 February 2009
 
 

21 November 2008

 

 

BBC Trust Responds Local Media Concerns and Rejects Local Video Plans

 

18 November 2008

 

 

Cameron Warns of ‘Crushing’ Power of BBC and Questions Trust’s Independence

 

13 November 2008

 

MPs Rally Against BBC Local Video Proposals

 

10 November 2008

 

Northcliffe's Alarm at BBC Local Video Process

 

6 November 2008

 

BBC Local Plans Attacked at Commons Select Committee

 

3 November 2008

 

NS Lawyers Call for Suspension of BBC Local Public Value Test

 

3 November 2008

 

Clifford Chance letter to BBC Trust

 

3 November 2008

 

Clifford Chance letter to Ofcom

 

30 October 2008

Jeremy Hunt Opposes BBC Local Video Plans

 

23 October 2008

 

Burnham: Local Newspapers "Pillars of the Community"

 

23 October 2008

BBC Commercial Operations- Select Committee Inquiry

 

23 October 2008

Press Gazette Editor Hits Out at BBC Trust Chairman

 

3 October 2008

NS Meets Ofcom & BBC Trust as Local Video PVT Publication Date is Changed

 

11 September 2008

Ofcom Debates Future Funding of Public Service Content

 

4 September 2008

NS Steps up Meetings on BBC Local

 

14 August 2008

Industry Unites in Opposition to BBC Threat to Local Media
Digital Development
 (NS Response to BBC Local Video Proposal)

 

7 August 2008

 

Northcliffe Attacks BBC Local Plans as Unjustified and Insensitive

 

24 July 2008

NS Highlights Importance of Independent Local News Networks

 

10 July 2008

Ofcom and BBC Trust Extend Deadline for BBC Local Responses

 

3 July 2008

David Black Speaks Out Over BBC ‘Ultra-Local’ Plans

 

24 June 2008

BBC Plans Would Stifle Local Media Online Development

 

12 June 2008

BBC Local Services Proposals to be Published

 

5 June 2008

BBC Local Sites Among Least Valued Despite £36M Overspend on bbc.co.uk

 

29 May 2008

NS presentation to BBC Trust and Ofcom

 

18 October 2007

BBC Announcement on Local TV Services: NS Response

 

21 June 2007 

Media Expert: Local Communities Already Well-Served by
Regional Press

 

3 May 2007                  

BBC Director General’s Evidence to the House of Commons
on Ultra Local
 Television

 

26 April 2007

 

BBC Ultra Local News Project Hangs in the Balance

 

22 November 2006

Hull Daily Mail Editor Speaks Out Against BBC’s Laughton Report

 

15 November 2006 

NS Responds to BBC Laughton Report

 

6 September 2006

NS Meets BBC, DTI and DCMS

 

12 July 2006

Tessa Jowell: "BBC Must Not Be Overmighty"

 

25 May 2006

National Coverage For NS Campaign Against BBC Ultra Local Services

 

15 May 2006

BBC Charter Review Joint Submission

 

15 May 2006

Shadow Chancellor:  BBC Should Not Be “Bull in the China Shop of New Media

 

11 May 2006

CRCA Boss Speaks Out Against BBC Use of LicenceFee at NS AGM

 

8 May 2006

David Elstein, Chairman, Sparrowhawk Media

 

8 May 2006

Response of the Newspaper Society to the White Paper

 

8 May 2006

David Cameron Backs NS Campaign

 

4 May 2006

BBC Charter Review and Ultra-Local Plans

 

23 March 2006  

NS Lobbying Influences Parliamentary Process

 

14 March 2006

NS Comments on BBC White Paper

 

9 March 2006

Mark Thompson Meets Regional Press on Ultra Local TV

 

21 December 2005

 

NS Meets BBC About Ultra Local Television

 

20 October 2005

 

Times Warns that BBC Should Not Become Taxpayer-Funded Monopoly

13 October 2005

 

NS Presents to DTI on BBC Ultra Local TV Plans

 

27 July 2005

Support Grows for NS Case Against BBC's Ultra Local Plans

 

18 July 2005

Regional Press Warns BBC: Stay Off Our Patch

 

July 2005  

Review of the BBC's Royal Charter: Newspaper Society Submission

 

3 March 2005  

Green Paper on future of the BBC

 

21 December 2005

NS Meets BBC About Ultra Local Television

 

18 February 2004  

Review of BBC Online - Letter to Philip Graf

 

 
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