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1. Ofcom also has a duty to review the effectiveness of Teletext. We will conduct this analysis in Phase 2 of our review. We will also include a more detailed analysis of the BBC's publicly funded digital channels.

2. DTT: Digital Terrestrial Television. Formerly ONdigital/ITV Digital, now Freeview. We will use the term 'DTT' throughout.

3. From April 2005, BBC One and BBC Two will each have to achieve 25% independent production separately. The definition of 'independent production' excludes repeats, news and acquired programmes.

4. Original production, by this definition, includes repeats.

5. Regional production consists of network programmes made outside the M25, including repeats.

6. The Television Without Frontiers directive excludes news, sport and gameshows from the quota for European programmes.

7. Original programming on CBeebies, CBBC, Parliament and News 24 includes repeats of commissioned programming first shown on any BBC public service channel. On BBC Three & Four it excludes such repeats.

8. 'Peak-time' for BBC Three and Four is defined as 7pm to midnight. Elsewhere it means 6pm to 10.30pm.

9. BBC Three has a separate, specific commitment to 25% independent production.

10. BBC Three will have a specific commitment to 33% regional production expenditure from April 2004.

11. Original productions and commissions transmitted by the ITV network from 9.25am to midnight, except for religion which includes transmissions up to 1am.

12. All output, including original productions, commissions and acquired material transmitted all day.

13. Original productions and commissions transmitted from 6am to midnight.

14. Includes breakfast news.

15. Excludes breakfast news.

16. Includes news headlines.

17. Excludes consumer programmes.

18. BBC One and Two together, all regions.

19. Children's programmes including acquired should amount to not less than ten hours per week on ITV.

20. Includes pre-schools.

21. Indicative targets only for ITV1 and Five.

22. First-run programmes only, shown between 9.25am and 12.30am. These figures are for a typical English region. Each ITV Nation and Region has specific quota obligations, some of which are higher than these standard hours. The BBC regional programme quota applies in total across all Nations and Regions with no individual quota requirements set, although some separate targets are given in the BBC Statement of Promises.

23. This figure includes the requirement for a regional or sub-regional news programme of 30 minutes' duration each weekday plus the commitment to a number of other slots in peak-time on weekdays and weekends as specified in the ITV Charter.

24. Figure 4 provides a short summary of our remit. It is not exhaustive. See clause 264 of the Communications Act 2003 for the full legal position.

25. Ofcom also has a duty to review the effectiveness of Teletext. We will conduct this analysis in Phase 2 of our review.

26. Ofcom would like to thank all those who contributed to the data-gathering exercise.

27. See Figure 38 in Chapter 3 for more detail.

28. Peak-time is between 6pm and 10.30pm every day.

29. BBC Three replaced BBC Choice in February 2003.

30. One of the documents supporting this report, What viewers watch: television viewing behaviour, conducts a full and detailed analysis of viewing trends. This section of the main report summarises its findings. We are able to report viewing data for 2003, in contrast to our data on broadcaster output, which currently only runs to 2002.

31. The fact that viewers support any such principles does not necessarily mean that any market intervention is needed to support their delivery. Many of the aspects of television valued by the public might well be provided in a competitive and commercial marketplace.

32. Although the interests of some core audience groups (e.g. those with low purchasing power or low propensity to consume) will never be of significant interest to advertisers. To the extent that they have different viewing preferences to those of more affluent viewers, these interests may be under-served by advertiser-funded channels.

33. See Driving digital switchover: a report to the Secretary of State. Ofcom, April 2004.

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