What's occurring ?

The Inquisitors of the Ofcom Content Board have released their minutes from April, and things are afoot at BBC Sounds, 5Live and 'children's news' (does this mean Newsround ?)

• Proposed changes to BBC Sounds; Ofcom’s review of phase 2 remained on pause, pending the BBC’s final proposals and receipt by Ofcom of an updated materiality assessment from the BBC.
• Other BBC related issues raised included News quotas on Radio 5Live; trial of ‘windowing’ BBC podcasts in BBC Sounds (ie offering some BBC podcasts exclusively on Sounds for a limited period); and potential transfer of children’s news to online-only

Some common sense seems to have been shared with executive members about their wider review of BBC News and Current Affairs...

19. Issues raised by members in discussion included the risk that Brexit coverage could skew views on impartiality more generally; the difficulty in deciding what impartial Brexit coverage was and value in getting beyond a simplistic approach to demographics, eg ‘Leaver’ and ‘Remainer’ disguised a wide range of views; and relevance was not about the news people wished to receive but meant a wider understanding of what the BBC should be delivering, eg international news. The BBC itself may have have conducted relevant research and the Executive was encouraged to access and test it.