§ 49. Mr. Woodburnasked the Postmaster-General whether he will introduce legislation to ensure that the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Independent Television Authority produce as far as possible alternative programmes and not merely competing programmes, which often by their timing make alternative viewing impossible.
§ Mr. BevinsThe detailed views of the Government in this matter are contained in paragraph 40 of the Second White Paper on the Report of the Committee on Broadcasting (Cmnd. 1893). Broadly speaking, the Government's view is that co-ordination of programmes as a whole would undermine the benefits of competition.