Broadcasting White Paper and Digital Radio and Audio Review
In June 2021, the Government announced that the conclusions of its strategic review would be set out in a broadcasting white paper. Up next – the Government’s vision for the broadcasting sector was published on 28 April 2022, on the same day as the Government’s response to the Digital Radio and Audio Review. Up next set out a range of actions that the Government intends to take to reform the legal framework that governs public service broadcasting among other things, while the Government’s response to the Digital Radio and Audio Review acknowledged that the case had been made for new regulation to protect radio’s long term position in the context of the rapid growth in usage of smart speakers and other connected devices. The Media Act includes provision to deliver those reforms.