The Changing State of Media Regulation in Britain

Secretary of State of Culture, Media and Sport James Purnell addressed the Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention on September 13, and announced a new agenda concerning media regulation. He plans to assemble a group to think through how to achieve some new goals including deregulation as well as “universal access” to content, and address questions of content regulation. Analog signals are ending in Britain in 2012. Read Mr. Purnell’s speech here.