Digital Broadcasting: Radio
Commons · Question 53687 · Tabled 20 May 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Official record
Answered 30 May 2025
Question
Asked by Max Wilkinson
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether her Department has had discussions with Ofcom on the adequacy of levels of news bulletins in the BBC’s proposals for new DAB radio stations targeted at younger audiences.
Answer
Answered by Stephanie Peacock, 30 May 2025
The BBC is operationally and editorially independent of the government. It is for Ofcom, as the BBC’s independent regulator, to hold the BBC to account in meeting its obligations to provide duly accurate and impartial news to audiences across its services...