Government planning to introduce £20m fund per year as part of BBC reforms.
The UK children’s TV industry could be set to benefit from a fund of £20 million per year to help grow content production.
The plan is one of a number of reforms to the BBC proposed by the Secretary of State for Culture & Media, John Whittingdale.
The white paper suggested a fund of £20m a year for a two-three year trial period, beginning in 2018-19.
The money would be available for content on television or online and focused on ‘under-served’ genres and audiences (as identified by Ofcom).
It is hoped that the funding will encourage other channels such as ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 to commission more children’s content. It could also benefit the likes of Sky, Amazon and Netflix.
The funding will also be additional and separate from that previously agreed in July 2015 between the Government and the BBC.
