Independent review of the BBC's Digital Television Services

The Secretary of State commissioned Professor Patrick Barwise to conduct an independent review of the BBC's Digital Television Services in April 2004.

The report was delivered in October 2004, and is published below.

This report follows the Secretary of State's approval of the BBC's proposals for the relaunch of their digital channels, BBC Choice and BBC Knowledge, as BBC3, BBC4, CBeebies and CBBC. All the approvals were subject to a number of conditions, one of which was that the services would be subject to a review after two years.

This document is the sister review to Tim Gardam's report on the BBC's digital radio services, which was published on October 19th. Both reports are supported by a market impact assessment conducted by Ofcom, and published below.

These reviews form part of a rolling programme of independent reviews of the BBC's new services. The Lambert report on News 24 was published in December 2002, and the Graf report on BBC Online in July 2004.

Independent Review of the BBC's Digital Television Services (PDF 1105kb)

Supplementary Reports:

Ofcom Assessment of the Market Impact of the BBC's New Digital TV and Radio Services (PDF 408kb)

Supplementary Report on BBC3 and BBC4 (PDF 132kb)

Supplementary Report on CBeebies and CBBC (PDF 386kb)

Related Information

Independent review of the BBC's Digital Television and Radio Services Consultation Document

Public Consultation Responses

These documents are available online in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.