CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Content standards—the challenges
ahead
Figure 1: Overview of the current UK framework for content standards regulation
Challenge 1: The content standards framework
Box 1: TV-like content
Challenge 2: Standards for content available
over the internet
Chapter 3: A new content standards framework
Figure 2: Average minutes of TV viewing
per day by type
Stage 1
Stage 2
Area 1: Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs)
Area 2: TV and TV-like content (non-news)
How should it be implemented?
What broad approach to standards and consumer
protection would the new co-regulator be expected to take?
When should the change take place, and how
should it be brought into effect?
Box 2: Super-affirmative procedure
Sign-posting content standards
Area 3: News and current affairs
Area 4: The open internet
The model as a whole
Chapter 4: A safer internet
Figure 3: Overview of our proposed UK
framework for content standards regulation (changes highlighted
in black text)
Chapter 5: Content creation
Public Service Broadcasting and convergence
Figure 4: UK spend on content
Figure 5: Virtuous circle of content investment
Visibility of PSB content: Prominence
Broadcast spectrum and Administered Incentive
Pricing (AIP)
The window of creative competition
Chapter 6: Competition
Ofcom's competition powers
BBC's economic impact
Chapter 7: Summary of recommendations
Appendix 1: List of members and declarations
of interest
Appendix 2: List of witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for evidence
Appendix 4: Glossary
Appendix 5: Models of self regulation, co-regulation
and statutory regulation
Evidence is published online at www.parliament.uk/hlcommunications
and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020
7219 5314)
References in footnotes to the Report are as follows:
Q refers to a question in oral evidence.
Witness names without a question reference refer
to written evidence.
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