Annan Committee

The Annan Committee on the future of broadcasting was established in April 1974 to discuss the United Kingdom broadcasting industry, including new technologies and their funding, the role and funding of the BBC, Independent Broadcasting Authority and programme standards.

In February 1977 the committee recommended:[1]

  • Changes to BBC funding by licence fee
  • Fourth, independent, television channel
  • Long-term restructure and diversification of broadcasting
  • Establishment of Broadcasting Complaints Commission
  • Privatisation of local radio
  • Independence from direct political control
  • Increase in independent production

Outcomes

  • Increased licence fee
  • Channel 4 (implemented in 1980)
  • Channel 4 being of a more "open" nature rather than one of balance such as the BBC

Members

gollark: It's very 16.
gollark: Well, my thing presently has 16 bits, 16 registers and 65KiB of address space.
gollark: So `MOVI` has been replaced with `ADDI` with the source register as 0.
gollark: Perhaps there could be some sort of unholy union of both, yes.
gollark: No, I mean a stack in the sense of a stack machine instead of a register machine.

References

  1. Annan Committee (1977). Report of the Committee on the Future of Broadcasting. HMSO.


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