All Regulation articles – Page 92
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NewsBBC staff air Sachsgate frustrations
Around three times the usual number of BBC staff turned out for a routine editorial policy meeting this month, to vent their frustration about the Ross-Brand debacle.
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NewsGovt urged to set digital radio deadline
The government should set a date for Britain's migration from analogue to digital radio, the Digital Radio Working Group has concluded.
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NewsOfcom slaps£95,000 fine on BBC
Ofcom has hit the BBC with a£95,000 fine for conducting competitions unfairly on the Dermot O'Leary Radio 2 show and the Tony Blackburn BBC London 94.9FM show.
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NewsOfcom names new chairman
Ofcom has appointed its former Consumer Panel chair Colette Bowe as its new chairman.
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NewsGovernment considers World Service memorial
The government is to consider erecting a memorial to the BBC World Service staff who provided “a beacon of hope, liberty and democracy” to people in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
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NewsBBC slammed over drama launches
The BBC has defended spending almost£164,000 on four drama launches during 2008, a year in which it cut 2,000 jobs.
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NewsBBC Resources staff win reprieve
BBC Resources staff in Birmingham and Bristol are to escape compulsory redundancy despite the commercial facilities company's plan to cease trading at the two cities.
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NewsC4/Five merger back on table
The possibility of a£500m merger of Five and Channel 4 has re-emerged as Ofcom approaches the final stages of weighing up Channel 4's future funding.
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NewsBBC drops licence fee direct mail firm
The BBC has fired the company in charge of sending out letters to licence fee evaders for using false statistics.
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NewsOfcom to kick off local TV spectrum sale
Ofcom will auction off localised Freeview spectrum in Cardiff and Manchester in February, kicking off a spree which could see dozens of new community television stations spring up across the UK.
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NewsMcCloud and Snow urge Ofcom to save C4
Two of Channel 4's highest profile presenters have urged Ofcom to find a way of securing the broadcaster's future.
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NewsIndies back C4 in PSB review
Indies have rallied round Channel 4 in the final stages of the PSB review, urging Ofcom to find a funding solution that will allow the broadcaster to flourish.
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NewsFive wades in to step up crisis over terms of trade
Indies are facing a major battle to hang on to their terms of trade after Five joined ITV in calling for them to be ripped up.
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NewsPM speaks out on assisted suicide doc
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has told MPs that tonight's broadcast of the assisted suicide of a terminally ill man would have to be judged by Ofcom.
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NewsDavid Davies to oversee sport 'crown jewels' review
Former FA executive director David Davies is to head the government review into the major sporting events which must be broadcast on free to air television.
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NewsTories call for licence fee breakdown
The Conservative Party has called for the TV Licensing Authority (TVLA) to adopt BBC branding and to offer a breakdown of how the licence fee is spent with any requests for payment.
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NewsOfcom clears Top Gear over Clarkson's prostitute joke
The BBC broke no taste and decency rules in its broadcast of an episode of Top Gear in which Jeremy Clarkson joked about murdering prostitutes, Ofcom has ruled.
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NewsHarry & Paul escape censure
The BBC has escaped censure over an episode of BBC1 sketch show Harry & Paul in which an upper class character encouraged a Northerner to “mate” and “mount” with his neighbour' Filipina maid.
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NewsCarter sends mixed messages on terms of trade
Communications, technology and broadcasting minister Lord Carter has sent out mixed messages over the future of the terms of trade - claiming they have been a great success but suggesting they may be re-evaluated as part of securing C4's future.
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NewsAsian channel fined£35,000
Ofcom has fined Asian broadcaster Venus TV£35,000 for a number of 'serious and repeated breaches” of the advertising code.