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Broadband boom saves BT from break-up
News UK telecoms regulator Oftel published its response to the Culture Media and Sport Committee report on communications on Wednesday, and ruled out breaking up BT. On 1 May the Culture Media and Sport Committee has recommended that Oftel, or its...
[July 17, 2002, 10:45]
Super-regulator Ofcom merges tasks
News To cope with accelerating convergence between different broadcasting media and telecommunications technology, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport announced the creation of Ofcom Tuesday, a new body that will combine the work of media, radio...
[December 13, 2000, 15:51]
Gov't departments hike spending on IT upgrades
News The Department for Transport; the Department for Children, Schools and Families; the Department of Health; and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport collectively spent £59.4m on IT upgrades in 2007-08, compared with £42.2m in 2006-07.
[November 3, 2008, 8:35]
Government 'must make leap to broadband'
News Giving evidence to the select committee of culture, media and sport on Tuesday, Telewest chief executive Adam Singer explained that many existing government services could be made appealing to users of high-speed Internet products.
[March 1, 2002, 6:31]
Government ignores royalty rights for online artists
News The Department for Culture, Media and Sport and actors' union Equity have however both confirmed that the issue of paying artists royalty fees for the use of their work will not be discussed. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has...
[January 19, 2001, 11:23]
Museum gets funding to promote the web
News The £4m is provided by Hodge's department, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and the Wolfson Foundation. The museum, based in Bradford, will receive £150k for the project — just part of the £4m that culture minister Margaret Hodge...
[August 27, 2008, 17:16]
Tories plan to neuter Ofcom
Blog And the policy-making functions it has today will be transferred back fully to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. If the latter is part of his plan, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport seems an odd choice for such tasks.
[July 6, 2009, 16:12]
Atos Origin wins £14m government contract
News The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has announced a £14m contract with Atos Origin for IT services. It signifies a seven-year continuation of the relationship in which the company has designed, implemented and managed the IT infrastructure...
[December 21, 2007, 8:51]
MPs push for regulatory action against BT
News The select committee of culture, media and sport has urged Oftel, and its forthcoming replacement OFCOM, to consider separating BT's network business from the rest of the company. Regulatory action should be taken against BT in an attempt to...
[May 1, 2002, 13:23]
Government help
Talkback There is some possibility of funding from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, although it might be a while coming. Andrew - nicely summed up, whatever your views on Gordon Brown! Let's keep our fingers crossed for Bletchley.
[May 16, 2008, 10:47]
Analysis: Ofcom to give BBC remit for universal Net access?
News I can't say what David Edmond's role will be within it," says a spokeswoman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the brains behind Ofcom. For Curry Ofcom is an acknowledgment that television is no longer the only or indeed the...
[December 13, 2000, 16:20]
MPs flirt with BT break-up
News The select committee of Culture, Media and Sport, which produced a report into the Communications Bill last month, recommended that OFCOM should consider taking regulatory action against BT. The company said pretty much the same thing to the...
[June 11, 2002, 12:09]
Unrest at BBC shows need for better outsourcing management
News The UK government's Department for Culture, Media and Sport, which needs to approve the deal, announced it would begin its scrutiny in early September. It will use the acquisition as the basis for building a competency in broadcast and media...
[August 23, 2004, 12:10]
BBC Internet services labelled anti-competitive
News BIPA gave evidence yesterday at the Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport, which is conducting an enquiry into the future funding of the UK's favourite auntie. The BBC's Internet business was labelled "anti-competitive" by media association...
[November 24, 1999, 14:22]
Digital Britain report panned by Tories, experts
News Shortly after its publication, Jeremy Hunt, the Conservative Party's shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport, called Digital Britain a "colossal disappointment" and lambasted the plan's proposal for a monthly 50p tax on fixed copper...
[June 17, 2009, 16:09]
Government Websites under fire
News The sites of the Equal Opportunities Commission, the Department of Culture Media and Sport and Commission for Racial Equality were identified as the best of a bad bunch. In the week the Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) Patricia Hewitt...
[November 22, 2002, 15:13]
European software patents inch closer
News Critics argued that the Juri vote tossed out the suggested amendments from the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport (Cult) and the Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (Itre) that would have placed...
[June 18, 2003, 14:04]
How is Digital Britain really doing?
Comment Stephen Timms, minister for Digital Britain, will address the conference, as will Jeremy Hunt, shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport. Most of the spend is still going into hybrid fibre-copper fibre-to-the-cabinet services, often in...
[October 21, 2009, 16:35]
Queen's speech to exclude arts Web site scheme
News A £150m scheme to put the cream of Britain's arts online is unlikely to be included within the Queen's speech on Wednesday, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) admitted today. It promised to put the best of British comedy, drama...
[June 19, 2001, 15:29]
Culture secretary unveils 'Channel 4 of the Net'
News The site will be aimed primarily at children and will feature examples of the "UK's national museum and gallery collections, films, music and stage performances," according to a statement from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
[September 28, 2000, 16:12]
