Monday 14 June 2010

Vaizey to examine kids’ television amidst fears for its future

Ed Vaizey promised last week to review children’s television funding, according to The Guardian website. There has been rising concern for a while that the current spending on new productions for Britain’s kids is inadequate, with around £50m a year less is being invested now compared with 2004.

ITV has “virtually withdrawn” from investing in new children’s content, whilst the BBC’s plan to increase CBBC and CBeebies spending by £10 million a year from 2013 has been deemed insufficient by some. To read the article, click here.

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