All Regulation articles – Page 102
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NewsOfcom fines MTV Europe£255,000
Ofcom has fined MTV Networks Europe£255,000 for repeatedly broadcasting “highly offensive” language and material before 9pm.
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NewsBSkyB slammed by ASA
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint from BT over what the telcomms giant described as a “misleading and denigratory” ad campaign run by BSkyB last year.
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NewsBBC1 drops the C bomb pre-watershed
BBC1 has been reprimanded by Ofcom for airing bad language before the 9pm watershed, including the phrase 'Oi, you fat c***'.
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NewsEyre: Privatise Radio 1 and 2
Outgoing GCap chairman Richard Eyre has joined Peter Bazalgette in calling for BBC Radio 1 and 2 to be privatised.
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NewsOfcom threatens ITV with action over regions
Ofcom is set to take action against ITV for failing to hit its out-of-London production value quota for two years running.
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NewsBurnham rejects calls for PRTS criminal inquiry
Culture secretary Andy Burnham has ducked a challenge by Lib-Dem media spokesman Don Foster to get the Serious Fraud Office to investigate the premium-rate telephone TV scandals.
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NewsDownloads get classification
Age restrictions on DVDs of TV shows are to be extended to on-demand downloads under a new voluntary scheme.
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NewsBurnham under pressure over cricket
Media Secretary Andy Burnham is under pressure to make a policy decision that would plunge him into head-on collision with satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
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NewsBBC3 hopes to lure teens with afternoon opening
The BBC has petitioned the Trust to extend BBC3's hours into the afternoon, and is planning to give some of the extra space to its teen strand Switch.
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NewsC4's Duncan calls for end to 'squabbling' over PSB
C4 chief executive Andy Duncan has said that its time for the industry to stop its “petty competitive squabbles” over the future of licence fee funding and sort out the future of public service broadcasting before its too late.
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NewsLyons: Publicly-funded C4 would be 'BBC5'
Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust, has attacked proposals to publicly-fund Channel 4 - warning that such a move would simply reduce it to “BBC5”.
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NewsWho fans told to get knitted
Civil rights advocates the Open Rights Group is pressing the BBC to be more flexible in allowing the public to “remix” its content for non-commercial ends after the broadcaster forced a Doctor Who fan to stop distributing knitting patterns based on the show's characters.
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NewsVirgin scolded over 'misleading' ad
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint from BSkyB over a 'misleading' national advert run by Virgin Media.
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NewsSkins rapped for teen orgy ad
An ad for Skins depicting a teenage orgy breached taste and decency guidelines, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.
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NewsNo backing from Burnham on extended ad ban
Media secretary Andy Burnham has refused to intervene to impose new advertising restrictions on broadcasters that could cost them up to£240m in revenues.
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NewsEastEnders upsets viewers with 'buried alive' story
The BBC has admitted that its ‘buried alive' EastEnders storyline ‘caused upset among a segment of the audience which was neither anticipated nor intended'.
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NewsC4 in hot water over Ramsay
Channel 4 has blamed human error over the broadcasting of a trailer containing offensive language from celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay that went out without a warning for viewers.
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NewsBBC to apologise for keeping charity cash
The BBC is to make an on-air apology for keeping£106,000 from premium-rate phone calls that should have gone to charity.
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NewsGrade: Ofcom fine is ‘sorry reading'
Ofcom's record fine “makes for sorry reading”, ITV executive chairman Michael Grade said today as he sought to draw a line under the affair by spelling out the new measures he has introduced to improve its compliance procedures.
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NewsITV braced for further criticism
ITV is bracing itself for further censure from Ofcom following the publication of the Oslwang report into phone voting for the British Comedy Awards in 2005.