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Hannah Roberts

Culture minister says ‘biggest anxiety’ is public service broadcasters’ budgets

Sir Chris Bryant spoke at the Edinburgh TV Festival (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Archive)

Culture minister Sir Chris Bryant has said his “biggest anxiety” when it comes to the British TV industry is the reduced budgets of public service broadcasters (PSBs).

The commissioning budgets of PSBs have been “squeezed by the real-terms reduction of the BBC licence fee”, as well as a reduction in advertising revenue, according to a report from the Culture, Media and Sport (CMS) Committee published earlier in the year.

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