COBA, the industry body for commercial broadcasters and on-demand services, has strongly welcomed Ofcom’s decision not to change rules governing the amount of advertising public service channels can show. COBA and others raised concerned that the proposed changes to... read more
British children’s shows head latest wave of UK television commissions from multichannel broadcasters Children’s live action programming, drama and factual shows headline a new wave of investment in UK programming from commercial broadcasters in the digital, cable and... read more
COBA has launched a new independent report on the value of the Country of Origin principle in supporting audience choice, media pluralism and freedom of expression, epsecially in smaller EU Member States. A copy of the report and a summary can be found below. The... read more
Content providers commit to Statement of Practice to protect on-demand viewers Members of the Commercial Broadcasters Association have signed up to a Statement of Practice for Video-on-Demand (VoD) services, committing to make child protection a priority. The... read more
COBA has called for the BBC’s governance system to be rebalanced, so that Management must prove the value of proposals to expand BBC services. Decision to extend CBBC hours highlights need for BBC reform The Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA) today... read more
COBA’s response to Ofcom’s final statement for its review of Public Service Broadcasting. Responding to Ofcom’s final statement for its review of Public Service Broadcasting (PSB), COBA calls on policymakers to realise the full value of the PSB licence as... read more
Good morning, so as the only representative of non-public service broadcasters on this panel, I am delighted to be the multichannel guinea pig in this morning’s experiment into the effects of crowding out by public service broadcasters. I have three points to... read more