🚀 UK Podcasting & Audio Gets Measured!

AudioUK teams up with DCMS to map the size & economic power of the UK’s booming podcast & audio industry — laying the groundwork for smarter policy & stronger support! 📊✨

https://thepodcasting.org/audiouk-backs-dcms-study-to-measure-uk-podcast-and-audio-industry-size/

#UKPodcasting #AudioIndustry #DCMS #AudioUK #PodcastGrowth #MediaInsights #CreativeEconomy #IndustryStudy

Has the decline in community radio eroded the transformative potential it once had? What impact has the reduction in Key Commitments had on local voices and social cohesion? Read more on how we’re squandering a legacy of grassroots media in our latest post. #CommunityRadio #MediaPolicy #DCMS #ofcom

https://decentred.co.uk/community-radio-a-squandered-inheritance/

I am not certain what this portends but it suggests that the separation of DCMS & DSIT a few months ago may have been considered problematic by Labour

Chris Bryant has picked up both departments and it’s like 2020 all over again?

https://twitter.com/DCMS/status/1810249978767384606

https://alecmuffett.com/article/110006

#dcms #dsit #internet #regulation

Lisa Nandy Named New U.K. Culture Minister
#Variety #Global #News #DCMS

https://variety.com/2024/film/global/new-uk-culture-minister-lisa-nandy-1236060834/

We received a letter "On His Majesty's Service" allegedly from #DCMS asking us to take part in something called the #CommunityLifeSurvey. There's no link to a .gov.uk site to verify it.

I have found a DCMS page referencing the survey domain name, so I'm now happy it's legit. But it's damn sloppy to send this out without a way for a non-nerd to verify it's not a postal #phishing attack.

We responded to the DCMS consultation on Analogue Community Radio Licensing, noting several flaws in the assumptions behind the consultation, and advocating for greater protections for truly community-run providers. Read a summary here:

https://bettermedia.uk/2024/02/01/submission-to-the-dcms-consultation-on-analogue-community-radio-licensing/

#DCMS #communityradio #communitymedia #analogue

Hollywood to UK Govt: Investigating Pirates “Increasingly Difficult”

https://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-to-uk-govt-investigating-pirates-increasingly-difficult-231120/

#hollywood #Piracy #dcms #MPA