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Live rights to listed events will remain critical to meeting the compelling public interest in free and universal coverage of key national sporting moments, regardless of how that live coverage is delivered, but, as noble Lords have noted, how audiences consume sports is changing. For many people, particularly younger people, as my noble friend Lord Moynihan and the noble Lord, Lord Watson of Invergowrie, said, on-demand viewing via digital platforms is increasingly the norm—even more so, of course, for events that take place at times which fall overnight in the UK, something this Committee stage is rapidly seeking to emulate.