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1984 May 1 - 1986 Feb 26
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1678
Broadcasting (Direct broadcasting by satellite: cable systems and their effect on broadcasting policy) (Part 5)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 268
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84 May 1 Tu Major Broadcasting: No.10 conversation record ("Direct broadcasting by satellite") [MT, Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Chief Secretary, Jeffrey Sterling,, officials] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 1 Tu Major Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Lord Cockfield, Tebbit, Rees, Jeffrey Sterling) [“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”] [declassified 2014]
84 May 8 Tu Major Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Brittan PS (“DBS”) [draft statement on direct broadcasting by satellite for 2nd reading of Cable & Broadcasting Bill] [declassified 2014]
84 Jun 26 Tu Major Broadcasting: No.10 Turnbull minute to Policy Unit (Direct Broadcasting by Satellite) [Brittan strategy to let the scheme “collapse under its own weight”] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 3 Tu Major Broadcasting: Department of Trade & Industry letter to No.10 (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [planned commencement of service in latter half of 1987] [declassified 2014]
84 Jul 31 Tu Major Broadcasting: Brittan PS letter to No.10 (“DBS Joint Project: Third Element”) [Direct Broadcasting by Satellite: BBC, ITV & ‘third element’] [declassified 2014]
84 Aug 3 Fr Major Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Cable”) [“cable revolution… will bring… jobs… wealth… and… diversity of choice”] [declassified 2014]
84 Sep 11 Tu Major Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (“Cable”) [“Many of the pilot franchise companies are disappointed and frustrated”] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 18 Tu Minor Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Ingham (“Windsor Cable TV”) [closure] [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 21 Mo Major Broadcasting: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Cable”) [need to counter “flagging interest”] [declassified 2014]
85 Jan 30 We Major Broadcasting: Brittan letter to Tebbit (“Prospects for the Cable Industry”) [“the overall position is far from promising”] [declassified 2014]
85 Feb 8 Fr Major Broadcasting: Tebbit letter to Brittan (“Prospects for the Cable Industry”) [“this new high risk industry must be privately financed and market led”] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 1 Fr Major Broadcasting: Department of Trade & Industry press release (“1985, the year of opportunity for cable TV: Minister praises Swindon Cable”) [“Cable means investment in new technology and new jobs”] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 6 We Major Broadcasting: Information Technology Advisory Panel letter to MT (“Cable systems”) [Paper with recommendations] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 6 We Major Broadcasting: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Cable Systems”) [Information Technology Advisory Panel follow-up to 1982 report] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 6 We Major Broadcasting: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“ITAP report: Cable Systems: A re-assessment”) [Information Technology Advisory Panel follow-up to 1982 report] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 13 We Major Broadcasting: No.10 letter to Tebbit PS (Information Technology Advisory Panel report) [“re-cabling Britain would generate significant economic activity and stimulate industry”] [declassified 2014]
85 Mar 25 Mo Major Broadcasting: Tebbit PS letter to No.10 (“ITAP reassessment of cable”) [“A major factor for cable investors is the very large capital investment required in the early days before revenues are received”] [declassified 2014]
85 Apr 26 Fr Major Broadcasting: Tebbit minute to MT (“Information Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP) report on cable systems: a reassessment”) [comments on report] [declassified 2014]
85 May 14 Tu Major Broadcasting: Tebbit letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer (“Cable Industry: Consortium Relief”) [“increasingly concerned about the ability of the ‘independent’ cable operators to raise the finance necessary”] [declassified 2014]