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This petition is now closed, as its deadline has passed.
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to bring forward legislation to protect and preserve local and regional news and non-news programming by public service broadcasters. More details
Submitted by Laura Davison of NUJ – Deadline to sign up by: 28 March 2009 – Signatures: 74
More details from petition creator
This petition is in response to the second phase of Ofcom’s Public Service Broadcasting review and the regulator’s agreement in principal that ITV can reduce its local and regional news commitments. Ofcom is currently consulting over these matters which would see regional television services cut from seventeen to nine. If finally approved this would have serious consequences for communities in the UK. We believe that television news is an important feature of a democratic society and that there should be an effective alternative to the service provided by the BBC. We are calling on the government to ensure that its review of broadcasting in the UK sets out proposals which secure the future of local and regional news programming and that decisions made by Ofcom do not pre-empt this debate. This petition has been launched by the National Union of Journalists.
Current signatories
Laura Davison, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- Brian Pears
- Karen Lawrinson
- Jenn Gollings
- Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
- Mike Jempson
- Tom Wills
- ian park
- Caitlin Smith
- Stephen Doy
- Timothy Reder
- Pweter Pink
- Jessica Forster
- james youd
- Cllr. Rupert Read
- Brian Varney
- Keith Aitken
- James Doherty
- Mike Price
- MR. Richard. Alan. Edwards.(Norwich F.O.E./National and Norwich Green Party).
- Graham Hambly
- Kevin Cooper
- Mr J C H Alley
- Paul Durgan
- Geoff Viner
- Keith Maunder
- cheryl tsappis
- stephen bray
- David Gabbie
- Valerie Pirie
- Sally Plummer
- Paul Anthony Blackwell
- Cissilene Ann Blackwell
- Sheila Ashton
- Lynda Edwards
- Mike Ross
- Jason Bye
- Ed Smith
- susan swain
- Gary Dale - Twitchett
- richard dale-twitchett
- Lauren Wight
- Kevin Bromfield
- james foster
- steve ponting
- Hannah Tettersell
- Veronica Pullen
- Trevor Ward
- Robert Davies
- LISA PHILLIPS
- ALIX PHILP
- Jason North
- sasha hyland
- Phil Bates
- MIKE BROWN
- mark gleadhall
- Sara Gosling
- Gareth Norris
- Tim Hooper
- p wojciechowskyj
- Andrew Lawless
- michael oram
- William Potter
- Philip Earnshaw
- Nic Small
- Simon Lyon
- Judy Kyle
- Judith Marriott
- JASON BEVERLEY
- Dominic Maudlin
- Matthew Tennis
- Alexandra Jane Becker
- shaun martell
- Patrick David West
