Broadcast Subsidy
A broadband tax is one option being considered by Ofcom to secure the future of the commercial broadcasters’ public service programmes, such as ITV1’s regional news and Channel 4’s current affairs strand Dispatches.
By that logic, presumably papers like the Swindon Evening Advertiser are owed about 40 years of subsidy.
Maybe, just maybe, we don’t want TV news any more. We can get the news whenever we want it, wherever we want it, on whatever we want. We can go straight to a story from the choice of thousands of sources, read blogs and aggregate it all together. You can set up news alerts that tell you when Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton do something trashy, if that’s all your interested in.
That’s why there’s no money in it - because people are deserting TV news. The best thing OFCOM could suggest would be to drop the “public service” remit, and let ITV put some more Harry Hill on.
via Tim Worstall
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I get all the news from my blogrolls, Tim.