| NOTAS: | Sinopse: Ofcom today published its Public Service Broadcasting Annual Report detailing the appeal and effectiveness of public service broadcasting (PSB) in the UK. The Report provides independent evidence as context for broadcasters' statements of programme policy and self-assessment reviews, also published today. Section 264 of the Communications Act 2003 requires Ofcom to assess the designated public service broadcasters, taken together, in terms of their delivery of the public service purposes set out in the Act. The designated PSB broadcasters are the BBC, ITV1, GMTV, Channel 4, Five, S4C and Teletext. In its 2004 review of the PSB market, Ofcom established a new definition of public service broadcasting based on a number of core purposes and characteristics, aligned to the PSB purposes of the Communications Act. The Annual Report provides evidence of what broadcasters have shown onscreen since 2002; how viewing has changed over this period; and opinions of current programming. It also reports on the first year's results of Ofcom's PSB Tracker, which asks around 7,500 viewers the extent to which they believe broadcasters have achieved PSB purposes and characteristics. |
