Television
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- What are the social, economic, cultural and democratic impacts of national and local news provision in the UK? How can we best quantify and/or qualify the impact of national and local news provision? How do these impacts and benefits differ across different demographics and stakeholders?
- What can we learn about news consumption trends, including on which platforms news is consumed, diversity of readership; the role of media literacy in engagement with news; even expectations of what ‘news’ is and how that varies depending on the platform?
- What are the characteristics of those who watch linear TV but engage very little with digital technologies? Why is their engagement low? What are the barriers and enablers for adopting non-linear TV?
- How might that change over time with increased digitalisation of media production and consumption?
- What is the size of the population who watch linear TV but currently have no broadband at home? What size may that population be in the coming decades?
- To what extent do audiences who watch linear TV engage with digital technologies such as on demand players, broadband at home, and smartphones?
- What are the environmental implications of increased on-demand consumption in comparison to linear broadcasting?
- How does engagement with and perceptions of different media forms shift across demographic characteristics? What interventions could improve engagement?
- What affects willingness to pay for news online? What types of content are different audience groups willing to pay for? In what ways are different audiences willing to pay (e.g. regular subscription, donation)? How does this change over time and what influences that change?
- Which methodologies could be used to more accurately forecast physical engagement at cultural events?
- In what ways do governance, regulation and regulatory frameworks support or hinder public service broadcasters in providing a public service?