BBC Trust to consult on framework for content distribution

29 Apr 2015 01:30 PM

The BBC Trust has launched an 8 week consultation on a draft framework for the distribution of the BBC’s content and services.

The BBC Trust has launched a consultation seeking industry and audience views on a set of principles governing the BBC's approach to making its content and services on TV, radio and online widely available to audiences.

The draft distribution framework covers the distribution of TV, radio and online services, including iPlayer and Red Button services, to any device used to access them including TVs, radios, PCs, tablets, games platforms, set top boxes, and mobile phones.

For the first time, this will bring together in one place the Trust's requirements for making both the BBC's broadcast (linear) and on-demand content widely available to audiences.
Under the principles proposed by the Trust, BBC services and content should be:

• Universal: Every household in the country should have access to each BBC service on at least one platform free at the point at use.
• Value for money: The BBC should be able to demonstrate that the value delivered to licence fee payers through the distribution of its services and content outweighs the cost of distributing it.
• Open and transparent: The BBC should make its approach to distribution transparent for the benefit of audiences and others in the market.
• Easy to find: BBC services should be sufficiently prominent on platforms and devices that they are easily found. The Trust has said that it believes it is important that the BBC can retain a direct relationship with audiences through its distribution activity, and the framework sets out how we think this is best achieved.

The full press release, consultation and draft framework can be found here: BBC Trust Press Release

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