Ofcom consultation on holding the BBC to account for the delivery of its mission and public purposes

Ritchie Cogan
Ritchie Cogan 14th July 2017

5 March 2024—Rafah, Gaza. EMT staff work in the surgical theater at the European Hospital in Gaza. The third IRC/MAP emergency medical team operates in the European Hospital of Gaza. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) have deployed an emergency medical team to provide emergency and life-saving medical care. The team, composed of trauma doctors, surgeons, pediatricians and water and sanitation experts, are offering surge and relief support to hospitals and providing life-saving medical care to injured Palestinians. ©The International Rescue Committee Photo by Belal Khaled for the IRC


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IBT proposes that Ofcom should include the volume of non-news international content the BBC broadcasts each year in its Performance Framework. This measurement should include international children’s programmes. Without measuring such content it will not be possible to fully assess the BBC’s delivery of its mission and purposes.

It is worth noting that Ofcom used to measure the volume of non-news PSB international content. Now that Ofcom has taken over regulation of the BBC, IBT believes it should re-introduce tagging of international content for all the PSBs because it is necessary to both assess BBC delivery of such content and to have an understanding of how BBC delivery compares with other public service broadcast provision.

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