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Committees of EnquirySykes Committee
Broadcasting Committee: report
Appointed: 24
th
April 1923Reported: 25
th
August 1923Cost: £320Members:Sir Frederick Sykes MPMajor the Hon JJ Astor MPFJ BrownSir Henry BunburyViscount BurnhamWH EcclesSir Henry Norman MPJCW ReithField-Marshal Sir William RobertsonCharles Trevelyan MPDiscussed: British Broadcasting Company funding by licence and its monopoly on broadcastingRecommended:
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licence fee funding
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no advertising
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broadcasting transfer from private to publicOutcome: The Company continued its monopoly and funding by licence. Eventually it became a publiccorporation
Crawford Committee
Report of the Broadcasting Committee, 1925
Appointed: 20
th
July 1925Reported: 2
nd
March 1926Cost: £106 7s 1dMembers:Earl of CrawfordLord BlanesburghCapt Ian Fraser MPRt Hon William Graham MPSir Wililam Henry HadowRt Hon Ian MacPherson MPLord RayleighSir Thomas RoydenDame Merial TalbotRudyard Kipling (resigned)Discussed: broadcasting organisation and its effect on viewersRecommended:
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broadcasting run by a public service corporation
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no direct parliamentary control
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licence fee funding for ten years
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educational programmes.Outcome: The establishment of the British Broadcasting Corporation by Royal Charter.
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Selsdon Televison Committee
Report of the Television Committee
Appointed: 14
th
May 1934Reported: 14
th
January 1935Cost: £965Members:Lord SelsdonSir John CadmanCol AS AngwinNoel AshbridgeOF BrownVice-Admiral Sir Charles CarpendaleFW PhillipsDiscussed: television broadcasting and whether to use the Baird or the Marconi systemsRecommended:
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television broadcasting should be established within the public sector
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a London station should be set up using both systems until one proved betterOutcomes: The BBC’s first Television Broadcasts from Alexandra Palace (eventually broadcastingwith the Marconi system).
Ullswater Committee
Report of the Broadcasting Committee, 1935
Appointed: 17
th
April 1935Reported: 31
st
December 1935Cost: £564 10sMembers:Viscount UllswaterMajor the Hon JJ Astor MPMajor the Rt Hon CR Atlee MPE Clement DaviesLord EltonSir William McLintockMarchioness of ReadingLord SelsdonH Graham White MPDiscussed: broadcasting, including overseas, funding and the nature of programmingRecommended:
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regional broadcasting decentralisation and expansion
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Government control during national emergencies
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freedom to report anti-Government views
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no funding by advertising
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increase in Licence Fee
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news programmes’ impartiality
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more Schools broadcasting
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2 more GovernorsOutcome: further expansion of the BBC and programmes
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Hankey Television Committee
Television
Appointed: September 1943Reported: 29
th
December 1944Members:Lord HankeySir Stanley AngwinSir Noel AshbridgeSir Raymond BirchallProfessor JD CockcroftRJP HarveyRW Foot (until March 1944)WH Haley (from April 1944)Discussed: television services after the WarRecommended:
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BBC monopoly of television services
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television in the regions
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high-definition television on 405 lines
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television receiver standards
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more co-ordinated research & development
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television’s financial independenceOutcomes: The post-war BBC Television service, a monopoly until 1956; expansion of BBC Researchand Development, established post-war at Kingswood Warren
Beveridge Committee
Report of the Broadcasting Committee 1949
Appointed: 21
st
June 1949Reported: 15
th
December 1950Cost: £15,415Members:Lord BeveridgeAL BinnsEarl of ElginLady Megan Lloyd George MPSelwyn Lloyd MPWF OakeshottJ Reeves MPMary StocksIAR Stedeford (from 27
th
September 1949)J Crawford (from 23
rd
February 1950)Dr Stephen Taylor (from 20
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March 1950)Sir William Coates (resigned)James Bowman (resigned)EAJ Davies (resigned)Discussed: BBC monopoly and fundingRecommended:
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BBC continuing as sole broadcaster
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Charter renewal and Licence Fee funding but under review
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regional devolution
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broadcasting of minority views
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more political broadcasting
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trade union recognitionMinority Report: Selwyn Lloyd recommended the end of the broadcasting monopolyOutcome: When the Conservatives won the election in 1950, Selwyn Lloyd’s recommendations wereconsolidated into a White Paper and ITV was set up.
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