All Regulation articles – Page 120
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FM challenge fails
Ofcom has defeated a second High Court legal challenge to one of its FM radio licence decisions. John Grierson, former managing director of the CKFM bid for the Cornwall licence, challenged Ofcom's decision to award the licence to Atlantic FM, whose bid he said did not comply with the regulator's ...
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NewsThe minister flicking the switch
James Purnell, the minister responsible for the high-profile switchover from analogue to digital TV, is optimistic about the future of a more distinctive, high-quality choice of programming.
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BBC rapped over vice
A BBC daytime series that covered prostitution, pornography and drug abuse has been rapped by media watchdog Ofcom. The regulator said scenes showing brothel workers, intravenous drug-taking, and sex toys - shown as part of the Britain'sStreets of Vicein February - were 'unremitting' and unsuitable for broadcast ...
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NewsBBC daytime sex under fire
A BBC daytime series that covered prostitution, pornography and drug abuse has been rapped by media watchdog Ofcom.
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NewsNotts council lodge Ofcom complaint
Nottingham City Council has complained to Ofcom after Channel 4's Best and Worst Places to Live in the UKnamed the city the second worst place to live in the country.
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NewsITV withdraws Sky EPG complaint
ITV has dropped its formal complaint to Ofcom over the price of BSkyB's regionalised encryption service.
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Ofcom fines C4 over Red Bull item
Channel 4 has been slapped with a£5,000 fine for giving undue prominence to energy drink Red Bull during a Richard and Judy Showbroadcast last year. In an attempt to correct inaccuracies in an item on the dangers of excessive caffeine intake, C4 showed a video on ...
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NewsKinga arouses 5.4m and 50 complaints
The latest sexual antics of Big Brothercontestant Kinga Karolczak continued to bring in the viewers with the Channel 4 show peaking at 10.45pm with 5.4 million (28.9%).
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NewsOfcom raises Five's commissions quota
Ofcom has capped Five's quota for original productions commissioned for the channel at 55% of all hours from 2006, up two per cent on the 2005 level.
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Ofcom wins legal battle over licences
Ofcom has won the first of two legal challenges over FM radio licences it has awarded. In the first such action taken against the regulator, A-Ten FM chairman Francis Wildman brought a judicial review to the High Court over its awarding of the recent Ashford licence to Local Ashford Radio ...
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Ofcom pay up...
Ofcom chief executive Stephen Carter was paid£414,463 in the past financial year. His basic salary of£267,500 was boosted by a£53,500 bonus and a£66,875 pension allowance. Chairman David Currie earned a total of£178,443, his salary of£152,777 topped up by a£25,666 pension allowance. Other top earners included senior partner for competition and ...
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NewsJowell to face MPs
Media Secretary Tessa Jowell is to face a cross-party probe into the government's plans to switch the country to digital television by 2012. The Commons media select committee is to question the minister this autumn about how and when analogue television will be switched off. The government has still not ...
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NewsMPs to probe analogue switch-off plans
Media Secretary Tessa Jowell is to face a cross-party Parliamentary probe into the government's plans to switch the country to digital television by 2012.
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NewsOfcom's Carter paid£415k
Ofcom's chief executive Stephen Carter took home a pay packet of£414,463 in the last financial year, boosted by a£53,500 bonus.
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NewsOfcom calls for regulatory rethink
Broadband Britain will need to rethink its approach to content regulation as more programmes and channels are delivered via new media platforms, Ofcom's Ed Richards warned yesterday.
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DCMS select committee announced
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has unveiled the line-up of its new select committee. Nine newcomers will join the House of Commons committee that monitors the department's work. They include former Conservative culture spokesman John Whittingdale, who is set to be chairman. Labour MPs Rosemary McKenna and Alan ...
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Loud Five ads rapped
Five has been rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for playing its adverts too loudly. The ASA said that during a broadcast of the Bill Murray comedy film Groundhog Dayon 3 March 2005, Five breached the TV Advertising Standards Code governing sound levels in advertisements. ...
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NewsJowell to face Lords BBC grilling
Media secretary Tessa Jowell will face questions in the House of Lords next week over demands that the BBC should surrender some of its£2.8bn-a-year licence fee revenue to help fund ITV's regional news.
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NewsBBC report escapes MP examination
BBC bosses have escaped being grilled by MPs about today's annual report because of the government's delay in setting up the watchdog media committee.
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BBC under pressure to open books
BBC chiefs are facing a renewed bid to force them to open all their books to the National Audit Office (NAO) to prove they provide value for money to licence fee payers. Auditor general Sir John Bourne told a cross-party group of peers this week that the BBC should fall ...