Alice Enders was quoted in an article regarding Sajid Javid, the new culture secretary, and his role in the debates over the renewing of the BBC licence fee. There has been some parliamentary support for decriminalising the non-payment of the licence fee; a move which the BBC believes could reduce its budget by £200m a year. Alice said " hopefully, he'll think twice." 

Claire Enders was quoted in an article regarding the potential successors of Lord Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust, who announced on Tuesday his departure with immediate effect. The government has to name a head of the Trust a year earlier than expected; the possible candidates are Sir Howard Stringer, Colette Bowe and Marjorie Scardino. Claire said “there are many good female candidates…there is no need for it to be a retired, male Conservative politician.” 

Toby Syfret was quoted in an article regarding Ofcom announcement of plans to review the 'wholesale must-offer' obligation placed on BskyB in relation to its Sky Sports 1 and 2 channels. He commented " We now have a very different landscape, where BT can take on Sky...a more general solution is required if Ofcom decides to retain a remedy at all."

Douglas McCabe was quoted in an article regarding Kiosked, a Finnish start-up company who are implementing their  technology on several UK newspapers, which scans content on a web page to work out  the most relevant advertisements to display. Douglas said that online publishers have "no choice" but to move beyond traditional display ad formats, adding that the UK market for affiliate marketing is worth about £1 bn a year and growing at a double-digit pace. "You can't simply keep using what is effectively a display advertising print model in digital." 

Franҫois Godard was quoted in an article discussing  the competition between Al Jazeera's sports network, recently rebranded beIN Sports, and Canal Plus, the Vivendi-owned  broadcaster, over Champions League broadcasting rights in France.

Ian Maude was quoted in an article on the acquisition of SecondSync by Twitter. He said " when you talk to broadcasters now they increasingly quote SecondSync stas at you. Twitter is the natural home for SecondSync and Twitter is pushing hard to integrate itself into the television industry."

Alice Enders was quoted in an article discussing the UK film industry. She said "the US industry is more stable because it has a broader production base."

Douglas McCabe was quoted in an article discussing the future of TV news. British news broadcasters are facing a battle for younger viewer's attention. He said "news is just ubiquitous - it surrounds us like wallpaper."

Claire Enders was quoted in an article about BBC's decision to cut costs by taking off-air its channel BBC Three. She said "it's much easier to take tens of millions out of really significant budgets, like television, than out of radio and online."

Claire Enders was quoted in an article about BBC cutting back its only television channel aimed at 16 to 34 year olds in an effort to save an extra £100m a year. BBC Three will become available only on iPlayer. She said "They are rightly anticipating that a larger segment of youth viewing is going online. But you can't break a new show on iPlayer to the level of Little Britain."