All Regulation articles – Page 124
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NewsOfcom prohibits hardcore TV porn
Ofcom has strengthened its broadcasting code to provide greater protection for under-18s from hard-core pornography.
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NewsPuttnam: Parliament must relax TV rules
The government is being pressed to relax the present straitjacket of rules governing the television reporting of Parliament after broadcasters revealed they have reduced their coverage because of them.
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NewsMP calls for BBC cuts debate
Labour MP Austin Mitchell has made a fresh bid to get a Parliamentary debate on job cuts at the BBC.
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Purnell becomes broadcasting minister
James Purnell, a former BBC executive turned MP, has been named the new broadcasting minister. Purnell, MP for Stalybridge and Hyde, has been promoted from the whips office to the Department for Culture, Media & Sport, where he will report to media secretary Tessa Jowell. He effectively replaces Lord McIntosh, ...
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Ofcom backs BBC
Ofcom has backed the BBC's decision to broadcast Jerry Springer - The Opera, rejecting complaints about bad taste, swearing and blasphemy. Ofcom said the show had not breached its guidelines, adding it was an
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NewsPurnell named broadcasting minister
James Purnell, a former BBC executive turned MP, has been named the new broadcasting minister.
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NewsOfcom clears Springer Opera
Ofcom has backed the BBC's decision to broadcast Jerry Springer - The Opera, rejecting complaints about bad taste, swearing and blasphemy.
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Ofcom may label
TV shows, music downloads and web videos could be labelled according to their suitability under a scheme being considered by media watchdog Ofcom. The system would see a classification system brought in to help keep young and vulnerable people away explicit or obscene content.
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Ofcom PSB thinker goes it alone
Ofcom's leading thinker on public service broadcasting is to leave to become an independent consultant after one final project for the regulator. Robin Foster, the strategy and marketing developments partner who put together Ofcom's -pivotal PSB review, will spend six months from July looking at how to cut red tape ...
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NewsEastEnders violence prompts complaints
Phil Mitchell's violent return to EastEnderssparked a series of complaints to the BBC.
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NewsPact appoints Minns to head policy development
Producers' alliance Pact has appointed Screen Internationaljournalist Adam Minns as its head of policy development.
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NewsSwitchCo launches
SwitchCo, the independent body that will manage the government's£1bn switch from analogue to digital TV, officially launches today.
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NewsBBC rapped for naming teacher
The BBC has been rapped over a documentary in which a gay man admitted a schoolboy 'crush' on one of his former teachers.
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Broadcasters to pay less for Ofcom
Ofcom has slashed its annual fees to broadcasters by up to 29% after coming in under budget last year. The regulator said its 2005/6 budget would be around£133m - 5% lower than the£140m it was allocated for the year to 31 March 2005. Ofcom will also receive a£5m research grant ...
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The view from Ofcom
Fresh from announcing that its costs have been reduced, media regulator Ofcom is poised to publish its Annual Plan which is to focus on several key areas affecting broadcasting.
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NewsDyke to face Lords grilling over BBC
The House of Lords has given Greg Dyke a platform to say what he thinks about the Government's plan to shake up the way the BBC is run.
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NewsOfcom slashes fees
Ofcom has slashed its annual fees to broadcasters by up to 29% after coming in under budget last year.
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NewsHooper to leave Ofcom
Ofcom deputy chairman Richard Hooper has handed in his notice and will leave at the end of the year.
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NewsBBC governors back Springer screening
The BBC was right to screen Jerry Springer - The Opera, say BBC governors who have voted against upholding a record 63,000 complaints about the programme.
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NewsGovt starts analogue switch-off
The Government will tonight take its first tentative step toward analogue switch-off with the launch of a trial scheme in Wales.