Via a new forum, the U.K. government will scrutinize the future of linear TV broadcasting based on research published Friday showing some viewers could be excluded from a general shift towards streaming.
Senior representatives from U.K. regulator Ofcom, TV broadcasters, infrastructure operators and organizations representing audiences will form a new working group, convened by media minister Stephanie Peacock.
It comes after a Department for Culture, Media and Sport-commissioned report, led by Exeter University and a group of independent researchers, looked at the U.K.’s current television delivery and consumption trends.
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The report found that 95% of households will have the capacity to watch TV over the internet by 2040, but 5%, or 1.5 million people, will still rely on traditional linear broadcasting by the same year unless the government intervenes. This group tends to be significantly older, have a lower
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