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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 ...
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NewsAudit chief: BBC should be more transparent
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 in the way they spend the licence fee.
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NewsDrug firm blasts Ofcom over complaints 'delay'
Lawyers for drugs giant Novartis have hit out at regulator Ofcom for taking two years to back its complaint against a Channel 4 programme.
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BBC critic to head commons watchdog
Tory MP John Whittingdale, one of the BBC's more formidable critics, is to head the Commons watchdog that will scrutinise its activities.The former shadow media secretary is to replace Sir Gerald Kaufman as chairman of the cross-party Commons media select committee. Labour MP Kaufman, himself an outspoken critic of the ...
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NewsTories reiterate top-slicing call
BBC bosses faced a renewed threat to the licence fee this week when the Tories stepped up the demand that they share the revenue with other broadcasters.
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NewsLicence fee victory for ITV
Ofcom has slashed ITV's annual licence fee payments by more than half, saving the company£135m a year. The settlement, which was better than expected, saw the company's share price rise by more than 5 per cent.
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NewsMP to investigate BBC online archive
A BBC project to make its archive available online has been criticised by a media MP, who fears it could spark a new trade in illegal downloads.
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NewsHumphrys to be grilled by Lords
John Humphrys and the BBC's newly appointed political editor Nick Robinson are going to find themselves on the other end of a political grilling this week when they are questioned by a House of Lords select committee.
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OFT turns up heat under BBC
The Office of Fair Trading has called for more power to be given to Ofcom to enforce anti-competition rules on the BBC.
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Female face at Bafta
Tightrope Pictures joint director Hilary Bevan Jones has become the first woman to be appointed deputy chairman of Bafta. Bevan Jones, who runs the indie with Shamelesswriter Paul Abbott, has been involved with Bafta for six years. The deputy is generally promoted to chairman after a ...
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NewsOfcom fines niche broadcasters
Ofcom has handed out fines totalling £30,000 to two digital broadcasters for breaches of its codes.
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NewsBland: BBC governance plans 'unworkable'
Former BBC chairman Sir Christopher Bland yesterday branded the government's plans to shake-up the way the corporation is governed as an unworkable 'fudge'.
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NewsOFT raises 'competition' concerns over BBC Worldwide
The Office of Fair Trading has added its voice to fears over the BBC's profit-making activities, warning that the corporation could be damaging competition in the broadcast industry.
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NewsSpringer case thrown out
The BBC has claimed a victory for free speech after the High Court refused a judicial review for a Christian group complaining about Jerry Springer - The Opera.
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Commons call
Lord Puttnam met House of Commons Leader Geoff Hoon this week to urge him to relax the current rules restricting the use of camera shots, which have led broadcasters to reduce their parliamentary coverage. Puttnam wants broadcasters to be allowed to show more reaction, close-up and panning shots of backbenchers ...