Culture, Media and Sport Committee - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]
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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 25 March 2009.

Oral evidence

Taken before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee

on Tuesday 4 November 2008

Members present:

Mr John Whittingdale, in the Chair

Janet Anderson	Alan Keen
Philip Davies	Mr Adrian Sanders
Paul Farrelly	Helen Southworth

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CONTENTS

Memorandum submitted by FremantleMedia

Memorandum submitted by Pact

Witnesses: Mr Tony Cohen, Chief Executive Officer, FreemantleMedia; and Mr John McVay, Chief Executive and Mr Charles Wace, Chairman, Pact, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

1-19

20-34

Memorandum submitted by Time Out Group Ltd

Memorandum submitted by Guardian Media Group (GMG)

Letter from Wanderlust Publications Ltd to the Office of Fair Trading

Witnesses: Mr Tony Elliott, Time Out, Ms Carolyn McCall, Chief Executive, Guardian Media Group and Ms Lyn Hughes, Editor-in-chief, Wanderlust Ltd, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

35-39

40-59

60-66

Memorandum submitted by Radio Centre

Memorandum submitted by the Newspaper Society

Witnesses: Mr Andrew Harrison, Chief Executive, RadioCentre; Ms Sly Bailey, Chief Executive, and Mr Paul Vickers, Group Legal Director, Trinity Mirror plc; and Ms Santha Rasaiah, Director of Political, Editorial and Regulatory Affairs, Newspaper Society, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

67-79

80-89

Supplementary memorandum submitted by FremantleMedia

Supplementary memorandum submitted by Radio Centre

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Prepared 7 April 2009