All Regulation articles – Page 40

  • Lord Patten
    News

    BBC launches major governance review

    2013-09-11T19:23:00Z

    The BBC is to launch a “comprehensive” review of its governance structure after MPs argued that current arrangements are “broken” in the wake of the payoffs fiasco.

  • patten_PAC_1
    News

    BBC Trust is “broken” say MPs

    2013-09-09T19:14:00Z

    MPs at today’s Public Accounts Committee hearing were repeatedly “astounded” that the BBC Trust did not ask former DG Mark Thompson more rigorous questions about the “eye-watering” £1.02m paid to his former deputy Mark Byford.

  • BGT Scarlett
    News

    ITV censured for BGT striptease

    2013-09-09T12:06:00Z

    ITV has been rapped for broadcasting a pre-watershed striptease on Britain’s Got More Talent that “clearly crossed the line”.

  • Lord Patten
    News

    BBC Trust ‘faces axe’ in payoffs row

    2013-09-09T09:05:00Z

    The government is weighing up abolishing the BBC Trust as part a major overhaul of the corporation’s governance, according to a report.

  • Hollyoaks
    News

    Ofcom launches major study into TV violence

    2013-08-27T12:19:00Z

    Ofcom has commissioned a major piece of research into viewers’ attitudes to violence on television – as Hollyoaks was rapped for a pre-wateshed fight scene that featured a character being killed by a speeding train.

  • The Naked Rambler
    News

    BBC1 doc pulled after Naked Rambler arrested

    2013-08-20T11:57:00Z

    BBC1 documentary The Naked Rambler, scheduled to air tonight, has been postponed after Stephen Gough was arrested for refusing to wear clothes in public.

  • The Sketchbook Killer
    News

    Ofcom finds C5 murder doc guilty

    2013-08-05T12:58:00Z

    Channel 5 crime doc Murder Files has been found in breach of Ofcom regulations for broadcasting violent scenes before the 9pm watershed.

  • football
    News

    Ofcom: no relief for BT over Sky Sports

    2013-08-02T11:50:00Z

    Sky Sports will not be available via BT’s YouView service for the start of the Premier League season after Ofcom refused to grant the telco interim relief.

  • The_White_Queen
    News

    Sky in PSB talks over retransmission fees

    2013-08-01T07:57:00Z

    BSkyB is hoping to hammer out commercial agreements with each of the public service broadcasters in a bid to defuse the row over retransmission fees.

  • Stewart Purvis
    News

    Stewart Purvis joins C4 board

    2013-07-31T11:36:00Z

    Former ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis has been appointed to the Channel 4 board as part of a shake-up following the departure of Tony Hall to the BBC.

  • Top of the Lake
    News

    DCMS to abolish retransmission fees

    2013-07-30T11:26:00Z

    The government plans to abolish retransmission fees and has set out plans to preserve the prominence of PSB broadcasters in a wide-ranging policy paper.

  • Africa
    News

    DCMS aims to protect PSB content on digital platforms

    2013-07-29T12:26:00Z

    The DCMS will set out measures to protect the prominence of PSBs on new content platforms in the long-awaited Communications Act strategy paper this week.

  • utopia
    News

    Ofcom clears Utopia in child violence investigation

    2013-07-26T12:45:00Z

    Utopia, the controversial Channel 4 drama that featured a shooting in a school, has been cleared by an Ofcom investigation.

  • ITV News
    News

    NUJ slams ITV regional news cuts

    2013-07-24T12:07:00Z

    The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has launched a scathing attack on ITV’s plans to cut its regional news coverage - branding the move a “major blow to public broadcasting”.

  • John Inverdale
    News

    Miller writes to BBC over sexist sports coverage

    2013-07-18T09:50:00Z

    Culture secretary Maria Miller has written a sharply worded letter to Tony Hall asking if the BBC plans to take action over John Inverdale’s comments about Wimbledon women’s champion Marion Bartoli.

  • Anjem Choudary
    News

    Anjem Choudary interviews to be probed

    2013-07-15T11:55:00Z

    Ofcom has launched an investigation into whether Anjem Choudary’s appearance on Newsnight, Daybreak and Channel 4 News following Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder was editorially justified.

  • chris_patten.jpg
    News

    Patten: BBC Trust's hands tied over severance pay

    2013-07-10T18:16:00Z

    Lord Patten has questioned whether the BBC Trust should be given more power to interrogate BBC executive pay after the governing body came under fire over severance deals.

  • Tony Hall and Lord Patten
    News

    BBC bosses face payoff questions

    2013-07-10T08:55:00Z

    BBC director general Tony Hall and Trust chairman Lord Patten are to be questioned by MPs today on the corporation’s “unacceptable” payoffs.

  • ROLY_KEATING
    News

    BBC puts spotlight on payoff processes

    2013-07-04T08:00:00Z

    The role of the BBC’s non-executive remuneration committee is set to come under scrutiny as the corporation bids to clamp down on senior management payoffs.

  • Murder Trial
    News

    C4 Murder Trial: court on camera

    2013-07-02T11:38:00Z

    Channel 4’s unprecedented look inside a Scottish murder court is unlikely to prompt a flood of filming requests into restricted areas of the judicial system, its producers have claimed.