Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Toby Jessel (Conservative), on Wednesday, 26 April 1995, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 9 members in total.

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DIVERSITY OF MEDIA OWNERSHIP AND CHANNEL 5

That this House is concerned about the concentration of media ownership in Britain in the hands of foreign companies; believes in the need to update media ownership controls whilst ensuring continuing diversity of ownership; notes the management control exercised by News International over British Sky Broadcasting, as well as its ownership of over a third of the British national press; notes also the intention of a consortium led by British Sky Broadcasting to bid for the Channel 5 licence; notes that BSkyB is planning to provide the Chief Executive for the consortium and the value which would accrue to BSkyB from cross-promotion with a terrestrial channel; recognises the undesirability of BSkyB, already the commercial broadcaster with the biggest revenue in Britain, having management involvement in Channel 5; calls upon the Independent Television Commission to give due weight to the quality of programme plans in applications for the Channel 5 licence; and draws attention to the undesirability of news being provided by an organisation controlled by the United Kingdom's biggest press owner and to the desirability of maintaining diversity in the ownership of the British media.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received 2 amendments.

1036A1

leave out from `Britain' to `believes' in line 2.

1036A2

leave out from `attention' to `to' in line 13.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1036 

1036A1 

1036A2 

Session

1994-95

Subjects

Channel Five Sky Ownership Media

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk