{"id":596,"date":"2007-09-12T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2007-09-12T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T19:01:00","slug":"ofcom-and-itv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/09\/ofcom-and-itv\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofcom and ITV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">W<\/span>hat will public service broadcasting look like in 2012 &#8211; post digital switch-off? Yesterday industry regulator <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ofcom <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/broadcast\/story\/0,,2166862,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced its review<\/a>, a consultation which will end in 2009. Today <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ITV<\/span>&#8216;s Executive Chairman <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Michael Grade<\/span> spelled out the result of <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/city\/story\/0,,2167318,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">his review<\/a> &#8211; free, original entertainment &#8211; which will begin as soon as he can get <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ofcom<\/span>&#8216;s approval to dump local news commitments.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ITV<\/span> has managed to get CRR looked at, now it&#8217;s squeezing the most sensitive of public service commitments &#8211; local news. What will be the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">quid pro quo<\/span> for keeping the news? If you were running a local ITV news outfit you might think to start getting politicians of all shades on the couch from tonight&#8230;every night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will public service broadcasting look like in 2012 &#8211; post digital switch-off? Yesterday industry regulator Ofcom announced its review, a consultation which will end in 2009. Today ITV&#8216;s Executive Chairman Michael Grade spelled out the result of his review &#8211; free, original entertainment &#8211; which will begin as soon as he can get Ofcom&#8216;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-itv-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}