Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt outlined the Department of Media, Culture and Sports’ priorities for the media at the Hospital Club in London today.

Here’s a link to the speech in full. And here’s my summary of the key points.

• Support for a universal internet service level of 2Mbps
• Series of market testing projects to bring superfast broadband to rural and hard-to-reach areas
• Support for Ofcom’s proposals to open up access to BT’s ducts and telegraph poles to promote further third party investment
• Scrap the Independently Funded News Consortia (IFNC)
• Relaxation of local cross-media ownership rules
• Review by Nicholas Shott, head of UK Investment Banking at Lazard, into the viability of local television stations throughout the UK