Culture secretary announces task force to help Premier League and other sports get up and running

Culture secretary Oliver Dowden announces formation of task force to help the Premier League and other sports get up and running safely amid coronavirus crisis with former Lionesses star Alex Scott to serve on it Oliver Dowden announced the news during Downing Street press conference Both the sporting and cultural calendars have been decimated in … Read more

Premier League matches set to be free-to-air as part of Project Restart plan

Premier League matches to be broadcast free-to-air for the first time ‘to discourage people from leaving their homes’ – as culture secretary Oliver Dowden confirms talks over mid-June restart Government have hopes of resuming the Premier League season by mid-June Oliver Dowden , Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, revealed that free-to-air … Read more

Culture Minister Oliver Dowden blasts BBC director-general over bias in wake of Panorama programme

Culture Minister Oliver Dowden blasts BBC director-general over bias in the wake of Panorama programme on the Government’s handling of Covid-19 Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has written to BBC director-general Tony Hall Urged him to ‘uphold highest standards in relation to integrity and impartiality’ Comes after Panorama programme critical of Government’s Covid-19 strategy The medical professionals interviewed … Read more

News industry joins with advertising bodies to back government’s call for brands not to block ads

The news industry has joined forces with advertisers and tech companies in calls to stop the ‘overzealous use of keyword blocking’ and allow adverts to appear next to coronavirus articles.   Industry bodies have come together to support the message by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) by urging firms to end ‘ad-blocking’ on online … Read more