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 Community TV Trust & The Regulator

Ofcom is our national media regulator. It has also proposed an idea for countering the future loss of public service broadcast content by enabling and implementing a new agency to commission and distribute such content. This is the so-called Public Service Publisher [PSP].

Community TV Trust has been lobbying Ofcom since Spring 2006 and responded to their consultation in early 2007 on Digital Dividend and Spectrum availability that will result from digital switch over.

CTVT participates in this debate because it sees an important link between local, unregulated media creation, and local, regulated broadcast services.

Local radio stations are proliferating. Need it be prohibitively expensive to support local TV ?

Certainly not if such a service utilises the growing speed and ubiquity of broadband. When the BBC was launched, spectrum was made available at reduced cost.

Given that spectrum will be released by the switch to digital transmission, might not the vision of serving and supporting the nation's community ventures be appropriate ?

Ofcom plans to auction off available spectrum. Is there not a case for intervention ?

Community TV Trust's response to Ofcom's review of what it calls Digital Dividend is available on their website. You can also read it on this website via the main home page navigation Ofcom PSP DDR.