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1988 May 3 - 1989 Dec 21
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2592
Broadcasting (Legislation on broadcasting; Channel 4; community radio) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 202
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88 Oct 27 Thu Broadcasting: Geoffrey Howe minute to Douglas Hurd ("Community Radio") [concern about new stations being misused by broadcasters to expound views affecting interests of foreign governments] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Oct 26 Wed Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Douglas Hurd ("Community Radio") [length of contracts, licence fees] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Nov 4 Fri Broadcasting: Nigel Lawson minute to Douglas Hurd ("Community Radio") [length of contracts] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Oct 20 Thu Broadcasting: David Young minute to Douglas Hurd ("Community Radio") [curtailing activities of pirate radio] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Oct 31 Mon Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Community Radio") [statement on IBA's proposals] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Oct 10 Mon Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Community Radio") [IBA's proposals, pirate radio] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 12 Thu Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Nicholas Ridley ("Ancillary Use of Broadcasting Signals") [proposals for new legislative framework] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 24 Tue Broadcasting: Peter Walker minute to Douglas Hurd ("Ancillary Use of Broadcasting Signals") [subtitles for Welsh-languages programmes] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 25 Wed Broadcasting: Norman Lamont minute to Douglas Hurd ("Independent Television Commission and S4C") [safety net payments] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Nov 3 Fri Broadcasting: Peter Walker minute to Norman Lamont ("Funding Arrangements for S4C") [amazed at proposal S4C should be funded from within Welsh Office] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Dec 21 Thu Broadcasting: Norman Lamont minute to Peter Walker ("Funding Arrangements for S4C") [payments should be made frpm a Home Office Vote] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 16 Mon Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Nigel Lawson ("Broadcasting Bill: Tax Implications of Channel 4 Trust") [ownership transfer could generate CGT and CIT liabilities] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Sep 26 Tue Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to Norman Lamont ("Independent Television Commission") [S4C funding arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Oct 2 Mon Broadcasting: Malcolm Rifkind minute to Norman Lamont ("Independent Television Commission - S4C") [treating S4C "safety net" as voted expenditure] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jun 29 Wed Broadcasting: Douglas Hurd minute to David Young ("Government's Reply to Report by Home Affairs Committee on Radio") [plans for publication] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jun 22 Wed Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Young PS (developments in TV) [draft speech] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 May 11 Wed Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Young PS ("Broadcasting Standards Council (BSC)") [budget for the Council, legislative timetable] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Jul 1 Fri Broadcasting: Paul Gray minute to Hurd PS ("Channel 4") [appointment of trustees] [declassified Dec 2016]
89 Sep 28 Thu Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Paul Gray ("Broadcasting Bill: Channel 4") [proposals for revised structure] [declassified Dec 2016]
88 Nov 1 Tue Broadcasting: Hurd PS minute to Howe PS ("Draft Convention and Directive on Broadcasting") [some hope for a political solution] [declassified Dec 2016]