Public service 'too 高くつく／犠牲の大きい' （人命などを）奪う，主張するs ITV

By Jon Rees
Updated: 13:29 BST, 22 June 2008

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ITV has told マスコミ 監視者 Ofcom that its public service programmes such as 地域の news will soon 中止する to be cost-効果的な.

The 放送者 知らせるd the regulator on Friday that its かかわり合い to make public service shows in return for a lo wer price for its broadcast licences is outdated in the 数字表示式の 時代.

ITV, 議長，司会を務めるd by Michael Grade, reckons the 削減 it gets in the cost of its licences for its public service work is 価値（がある） about £220m a year.

The cost of making the programmes 連合させるd with the loss in advertising 歳入 that results from smaller audiences is about £190m a year.

By 2012, ITV reckons its public service programmes will be 価値（がある） about £40m a year. Grade is going ahead with 計画（する）s to 削除する 地域の news 公式発表s and axe 職業s, though Ofcom has yet to agree an end to ITV's public service かかわり合い.

ITV is also 圧力（をかける）ing for 攻撃する，衝突する shows such as 載冠（式）／即位（式） Street and Kingdom to be 含むd in its licence 義務 to spend 50% of its programme 予算 outside the M25.

They are 除外するd because strict 基準 需要・要求する that all staff and offices 同様に as 始める，決めるs and filming should be based away from London.