ofcom leaving is controversial.ating. in an instant, the tourism stopped, a lot of the caravan parks shut. so those jobs that people rely on were just instantly, in one fell swoop, gone. suzi taylor is on the front line of rhyl�*s covid recovery. so i've brought you in todayjust to sort out how we can help you... she's helping people find work in a town that saw a 50% increase in universal credit claims during the pandemic. things are, at last, getting better. the amount ofjobs are increasing. but, unfortunately, it's all very low—skilled. it's very important, because i can pay my way in life, then. i don't have to scrounge from the government. denverjeff is one of susie's successes — thanks to the salvation army's help, he started work on monday in a supermarket. the former labourer had struggled through the pandemic to find work. it's impossible because everything's shut. you've got papers, but there's no jobs in the papers no more, either. they're all on the internet — job search and things like that. and i haven

this year, of course, ofcom revoked the licence from china global television news.part of this bigger story that you're alluding to? they are very definitely part of the bigger story. cgtn have been part of the china kind of propaganda mission abroad that cedric was referring to. i think it's very good that ofcom realised that it's dangerous to allow several kind of state broadcasters which don't allow independent criticaljournalism to be registered in this country, because that then gives them a kind of credibility and a license to operate elsewhere in the world as well. and it is very much playing into the kind ofjournalism i think there's kind of almost a disconnect between what's happening on the upper echelons and how it's affecting journalists on the ground. so these are people's lives. these are people who have moved families and who have built careers and have made plans. and the fact that these plans can be upended at any moment is incredibly unsettling for all foreign correspondents. when you look at organisations like trt world, for example, the turkish o

the media regulator ofcom has told us that it has left the controversial stonewall workplace equality was misrepresenting the law around trans equality — something the organisation denies. ofcom says its decision to leave the scheme is partly due to its need to �*remain impartial�* — but added its commitment to supporting lgbtq rights and freedoms is "as strong as ever." the headlines on bbc news... britain promises to use "every hour that�*s left" to evacuate as many people as it can from afghanistan, as america refuses to extend its airlift deadline beyond next tuesday. so far the raf evacuates over 10,000 people, including 3a0 embassy staff, and 2,500 uk nationals. researchers say protection against covid from two doses of the vaccine starts to wane within six months. now it�*s time for across the uk. and investigations are continuing after a two—year—old girl died following a fire at a caravan on lincolnshire�*s east coast. crews were called to the caravan park on monday night, a mum and three other children managed to escape. the caravan fire from which a mother and three of her

we spent about a third of our waking hours last year watching tv and online video, according to ofcomns at home. here�*s our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones. like many of us, the oakley family spent much of 2020 glued to screens, though not necessarily all together. mum and dad were in front of the main telly, while their son spent lots of time gaining, chatting to friends, and watching youtube videos, but it�*s streaming services not broadcast tv which were big for all of them. ——gaming. increasingly, it�*s just news and current affairs, really, is what we are watching broadcast. otherwise it's streaming. almost everything else is streamed via one service or another. do you watch any television? almost none. i'm usually watching youtube or netflix. i ofcom�*s annual snapshot of our media habits shows we spent an average of five hours and 40 minutes a day watching tv or online video in 2020. that�*s up 47 minutes on the year before. much of the increase is down to the fact that the time watching subscription streaming services almost doubled to an hour and five minutes a da

ofcom's annual snapshot _ watching youtube or netflix. of media habits should be spent an average of five hours and a0 minutes a day watching tv or online video in 2020, up a7 minutes on the year before. much of the increase is due to the fact that the increase is due to the fact that the time watching subscription streaming services almost doubled to one hour and five minutes per day. the biggest player, netflix, is now in more than half of all uk homes. with hit series like bridgeton, netflix now has more subscribers than sky, virgin and the other uk pay—tv providers put together. we pay-tv providers put together. we are pay—tv providers put together. we are seeing that younger people are migrating _ are seeing that younger people are migrating from traditional tv to really— migrating from traditional tv to really engage in streaming services where _ really engage in streaming services where they can watch what they want, when they _ where they can watch what they want, when they want on their own device, whether— when they want on thei

that's one of the findings of ofcom's annual survey of our media habits.espondent rory cellan—jones. like many of us, the oakley family spent much of 2020 glued to screens, though not necessarily all together. mum and dad were in front of the main telly, son arun spent lots of time gaming, chatting to friends and watching youtube videos. but it is streaming services, not broadcast tv, which was big for all of them. increasingly, it is just news and current affairs really, is what we're watching on broadcast. otherwise it is streaming. almost everything else is streamed by one service or another. arun, do you watch any television? almost none. i am usually watching youtube on netflix. i ofcom's annual snapshot of our media habit shows we spent an average of five hours and a0 minutes a day watching tv or online video in 2020. that's up a7 minutes on the year before. much of the increase is down to the fact that the time watching subscription streaming services almost doubled, to an hour and five minutes a day. the biggest player, netflix, is now in more than

i ofcom's annual snapshot of our media habits shows we spent an average of five hours and 40 minutesstreaming services almost doubled to an hour and five minutes a day. the biggest player, netflix, is now in more than half of all uk homes. with hit series like bridgerton, netflix now has more subscribers than sky, virgin and the other uk pay—tv providers put together. so what we're seeing is that younger people are migrating from traditional tv to really engaging in these streaming services, where they can watch what they want when they want on their own device, whether that's netflix or youtube, but we're now seeing older audiences also catching up and turning to these streaming services. so 2020 was the year britain became a streaming nation, with traditional broadcast tv something for older people and set to decline. but is this a permanent change, and will we want to continue to pay for the likes of netflix, amazon prime, nowtv, disney+, or will we start switching some of them off? we had a total of six streaming services subscribed at one point. that's now kind of slimmed down t

i think channel 4 news must be noted has never once been found against by ofcom in the impartiality rulings important point to make. it covers with impartiality. is it robust? yes. is it uncompromising? yes. they ask sometimes the toughest question sometimes because that's what their brand is all about. and they have an hour to do it, and as you know, in a world of finite, it's very hard when you have a half—hour to tell the world's story. when you have an hour, you just have that extra beat to go deeper and asked the second and third follow—up question. but i think you're talking about privatisation, i think, and the move currently is about economics. it's about the longer—term protection of channel 4 as the government sees it. are you confident that you can keep that independence with all the talk of privatisation? look, we have to. we are... impartial ourselves on the model for channel 4, but what we're not impartial about is channel 4 news. it is the most critical part of channel 4's remit, it is the most recognised and awarded news programme in britain. it goes out there and does more

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that's one of the findings of ofcom's annual survey of our media habits.a day watching the telly or streaming services and that includes things like online, things like youtube. interesting these figures and it's interesting to try and work out how much of this was because of the pandemic and the fact that people had not much else to do, lots of people for load and stuck at home, and unable to do things perhaps managing to get through school were quicker. that they might have otherwise done and that kind of thing and how much is an acceleration of a trend that was going to happen anyway, the fact that we are streaming more, we are glued to screens more than ever before. hopefully to answer that question is the group director of strategy and research at ofcom who published these findings. thank you for joining published these findings. thank you forjoining me today. how much of this was about escapism and the fact that we have been stuck at home with nothing else to do and wanted to watch something on netflix and how much of this is just a complete change i

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