"The Guardian" reports:-

"Government plans to include BBC in media plurality consultation"

The article is here.



Section 4 "The BBC" (page 23 of Media Ownership and Plurality- Department for Culture Media and Sport.)

"The BBC is estimated to have spent c.£430m on news and current affairs output during 2011 – more than the remaining UK television and radio news broadcasters combined. It is the market leader in each of the three platforms where it has a news presence (73% of television news hours; a high (though unquantifiable) proportion of radio news output and 46% of all page views amongst the top 50 online news providers)16. In Ofcom’s advice to the Secretary of State on measuring media plurality in 2012, it concluded that “The BBC’s significant scale and leading position in three of the four platforms mean that it must be fully included in any assessment.” Lord Justice Leveson noted this, and the BBC agrees that any review will need to take into account consumption of BBC news."