BBC chair: UK media regulation is no longer fit for modern age

David Clementi to argue against limiting time iPlayer can make shows available for

The BBC chair is to suggest that the system of media regulation is no longer fit for the modern age, after the corporation was forced to delay plans to make more programmes available for up to a year on iPlayer.

Audiences used to watching programmes as box sets on Netflix are becoming increasingly frustrated that most BBC programmes are only available on catchup for 30 days. The public broadcaster wants to make more shows available on iPlayer for longer, but has been told by the media regulator, Ofcom, to conduct a public-interest test into the proposals, in the belief it could harm commercial television rivals.