Television broadcasting in Northern Ireland: third report of session 2009-10 report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

House of Commons papers 237 2009-10

Corporate Author:

Great Britain Parliament House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee

Author:

Sir Patrick Cormack (chairman)

Publisher:

TSO (The Stationery Office)

It has become apparent that Northern Ireland feels left behind in UK broadcasting terms. Levels of production are comparatively low. Northern Ireland producers find it difficult to win commissions from the UK's major broadcast organisations. Digital switchover, already under way in some parts of the UK will not occur in Northern Ireland until 2012. Nor, since UTV remains strong enough to provide news in competition with the BBC, will Northern Ireland benefit from public money proposed for new independently funded news consortia. The evidence the Committee received confirms and demonstrates that Northern Ireland is the least well served of the UK's four nations in terms of network production that reflects and portrays its life and in the amount of network programming produced there. The Committee makes a number of recommendations to remedy this.

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