All Regulation articles – Page 97
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NewsITV rapped for airing Taggart in daytime
Ofcom has reprimanded ITV for subjecting 15,000 children to an “unrelenting” barrage of explicit violence in daytime repeats of Taggart on ITV1.
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NewsThompson: C4 needs new terms of trade
BBC director general Mark Thompson has called for a review of Channel 4's rights ownership to help safeguard its PSB future.
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NewsBurnham: PSB decisions by early '09
The government will announce its decisions on the future of PSB in the new year, culture secretary Andy Burnham has promised.
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NewsGovernment to review sports 'Crown Jewels'
The government is to review the make up of the 'Crown Jewels' listed sports events for the first time in 10 years, culture secretary Andy Burnham has revealed.
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Speech: Andy Burnham 26 Sept '08
Andy Burnham's speech to the Royal Television Society, 26 September 2008, titled Quality, standards, innovation - the way forward.
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NewsFive to formalise kids commitment
Five plans to adopt a more formal commitment to children's programming under plans the broadcaster is drawing up with Ofcom.
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NewsOfcom throws ITV regional quota lifeline
Plans to reduce ITV's regional programming quota will come as a relief to the commercial broadcaster, which has failed to hit its existing 50% spend target for the past two years.
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NewsBBC could follow ITV out of regions, warns NUJ
The NUJ has warned that ITV's plans to scale back its regional news output could clear the way for the BBC to follow suit.
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NewsCost of PSB? That's beer money
Viewers would only pay the price of a pint of beer for a month of public service programming on ITV, Channel 4 and Five, according to the second phase of Ofcom's PSB review.
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NewsOfcom: ITV wants reduced indie quota
ITV wanted Ofcom to help it lobby the government to reduce the 25% quota of ITV1 programming that it has to source from indies, it has emerged.
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NewsOfcom: Halve ITV regional 'non-news' content
Ofcom has called for ITV to halve the amount of 'non-news' programmes it makes in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and to cut its off-peak regional programmes by almost a third from next year.
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NewsOfcom:£235m gap in PSB by 2012
A£235m black hole in PSB funding is set to emerge by 2012, Ofcom has warned.
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NewsBBC2 show ignites contributor row
BBC2's Earth: The Climate Wars is at the centre of a new TV global warming row after four contributors claimed it misrepresented them.
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CommentHot Topic: PSB
The regulator finds itself shackled to a policy of its own making, says Emily Bell.
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NewsRichards: Ofcom won't be swayed by ITV
Ofcom will not be swayed by ITV's attempts to “paint an apocalyptic scenario” about its future, the regulator's chief executive Ed Richards has warned.
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NewsSpeech: Ed Richards, Ofcom, 17 Sep '08
Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards speech to the Royal Television Society on 17 Septmber, 2008, titled Taking the Next Steps Forward.
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NewsOfcom: C4's PSB future is a ‘pressing priority'
Ofcom has rejected a BBC-only PSB model as unworkable and has revised its remaining PSB options to protect the “pressing priority” of funding Channel 4.
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NewsPanorama prompts PM action
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has ordered a review of all the intelligence material around the Omagh bombing, following claims by BBC's Panorama that the bombers phones were being tapped before it happened.
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NewsC4 welcomes Ofcom support on funding
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan has welcomed Ofcom's support for a new funding mechanism to guarantee its PSB future.
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NewsOfcom shakes up PSB options
Ofcom has rejected a BBC-only PSB model as unworkable and has revised its remaining options to protect the “pressing priority” of funding Channel 4.