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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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86 Feb 12 We Major Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [Hurd to announce invitation to tenders for contracts] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 9 Th Major Broadcasting: No.10 minute to MT (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [handling of Government response and outstanding issues] [declassified 2014]
85 Aug 2 Fr Major Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Addison (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [“the argument about whether it must be a British satellite is not wholly resolved”] [declassified 2014]
86 Jan 8 We Major Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Addison (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [handling of Government response and outstanding issues] [declassified 2014]
84 Dec 18 Tu Minor Broadcasting: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Ingham (“Windsor Cable TV”) [closure] [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 May 1 Tu Major Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Brittan, Lord Cockfield, Tebbit, Rees, Jeffrey Sterling) [“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”] [declassified 2014]
85 Dec 13 Fr Major Broadcasting: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Chairman of the Cable Authority) [proposals to address slow progress] [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]
85 Dec 19 Th Major Broadcasting: Pattie PS letter to No.10 (“ITAP report on cable systems”) [no agreement between ITAP and government on forcing access to BT ducts and wires] [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 Jan 21 Mo Major Broadcasting: Robin Nicholson minute to MT (“Cable”) [need to counter “flagging interest”] [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 Jul 11 Th Major Broadcasting: Tebbit letter to Brittan (“Direct Broadcasting by Satellite”) [reluctant to abandon DTI policy] [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 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]
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 Jul 23 Tu Major Broadcasting: Tebbit minute to MT (“Information Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP) report on cable systems: a reassessment”) [“Predictably… drawn a very negative response from British Telecom”] [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]