Tweets from Jeremy Hunt’s speech “a more ambitious role for public service broadcasting”

10:53 AM Politicians “shouldn’t call for the dismissal of Ross and Brand”.

10:50 AM “I don’t think we should privatise Channel 4”.

10:49 AM Nothing radical in Hunt’s analysis. Presumably a great relief to the BBC.

10:47 AM “Creative risks like Strictly… are made possible by the licence fee”.

10:45 AM Just noticed Ageh and Loosemore are in the house too.

10:43 AM “Local TV should be stronger”. How exactly?

10:42 AM This is a very bland analysis of the PSB landscape. No free market muscle. No anti-licence fee tirade.

10:40 AM Hunt essentially accepts the Ofcom analysis of the PSB crisis.

10:30 AM Rehearsing the “crowding out” narrative wrt regions and online.

10:25 AM “Richness of PSB is at risk from ad slump and tech change”

10:20 AM Wants us to acknowledge the contribution of the private sector to the richness of PSB.

10:18 AM “The licence fee is here to stay because it works”

10:16 AM Robert “social capital” Putnam is in the room too – although only in spirit.

10:12 AM Torin Douglas and Owen Gibson too.

10:10 AM Phillip Graf is in the building.

10:09 AM Lord Putnam is in the building.

10:05 AM Charlie Beckett, Director of Polis, introducing.

10:00 AM I’m going to twitter Jeremy Hunt’s speech: “A more ambitious role for public service broadcasting” from the LSE.