All Regulation articles – Page 135
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NewsFederico earns Rise ITC rap
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has upheld a complaint about language broadcast on Channel 4's breakfast show Rise, following an outburst by an evicted Big Brother contestant, writes Becky Wilkins
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NewsDangerous driving show earns BBC second rap
The BBC has been given a ticking off by the Broadcasting Standards Commission for encouraging dangerous and irresponsible driving after it repeated a broadcast about a rally, which had already had complaints upheld against it.
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NewsRap for axed ITV show The Vice
Axed-ITV1 series The Vice has received a posthumous rap over the knuckles after the show failed to warn viewers about nudity and sexual behaviour in a show broadcast shortly after the watershed.
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NewsJowell allays Charter fears
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has moved to quell fears that the BBC's role in the Dr David Kelly affair would influence its Charter renewal process.
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NewsMPs savage BBC annual report
A furious bust-up with Labour MPs, accusations of bias and the Daily Mail up in arms. It was just another week for BBC director general Greg Dyke and his chairman, Gavyn Davies, as they unveiled this year's annual report, writes John Plunkett
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NewsChannel 4 rapped in latest ITC bulletin
The ITC issued its latest programme complaints bulletin today (July 14), with over half the included complaints criticising Channel 4 shows, writes Sam Matthews
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NewsBSC clears ITV1 Shipman drama
TV watchdog the Broadcasting Standards Commission has cleared Granada's controversial dramatisation of the events surrounding the crimes of serial murderer Dr Harold Shipman, after it was accused of unfair treatment and unwarranted infringement of privacy, writes Luke Satchell
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NewsGovernment strikes Puttnam deal
The government has struck a last minute deal with rebel peer Lord Puttnam and will now introduce a clause in the communications bill forcing Ofcom to submit any broadcasting merger or acquisition to a public interest test, writes David Rose
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NewsITC raps Five over clipshow footage
Five has been criticised by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) for broadcasting a programme in which a man swung a small child around his head by its limbs, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsGovernment seeks to appease Puttnam
Government ministers are holding eleventh-hour talks with rebel peer Lord Puttnam in a bid to head off a Labour rebellion over moves that would allow large newspaper groups such as Rupert Murdoch's News International to buy Five, writes David Rose.
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NewsBlair beaten over Ofcom role
Tony Blair suffered his first broadcasting setback this week when Lord Puttnam succeeded in putting the interests of the 'citizen' at the heart of the duties of new media regulator Ofcom, writes David Rose
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NewsPuttnam moves to appease ministers
Ministers renewed talks with rebel peer Lord Puttnam this week to head off a Labour rebellion over moves that would allow large newspaper groups like Rupert Murdoch's News International to buy Channel 5, writes David Rose
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NewsGov must save Coms Bill says Gallagher
Eileen Gallagher, chair of Pact, has appealed to the government not to allow the controversial cross media ownership changes to wreck the Communications Bill, writes Jane Marlow
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NewsFox News cleared of war bias by ITC
Fox News Channel's controversial coverage of the Iraq war has been given the all-clear after the Independent Television Commission (ITC) rejected complaints of bias from British viewers, writes Conor Dignam
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NewsITV1 rapped for ?f' word slip-up
ITV1 has been reprimanded by the ITC in its latest programme complaints report for broadcasting the ?f' word pre-watershed during its hit series I'm A Celebrity, Get Me out Of Here!, writes Sam Matthews
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NewsJowell fights back against rebel lords
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has issued a 'rallying cry' to the broadcasting industry - 'If you want this Communications Bill, get out there and argue for it.'
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Ofcom could loosen ITN ownership rules
ITV could be allowed to have complete ownership of news provider ITN from the end of the year, according to media minister Baroness Blackstone, writes David Rose.
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ITC rethinks occult
The Independent Television Commission is considering revisions to its programme code after Living TV presented two shows about the paranormal as factual rather than entertainment. The TV watchdog is proposing the changes in an attempt to address the occult and attempts to contact the dead. The move follows the screening ...
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NewsITC sets out list of new indie rights
Broadcasters could be forced to lend development money to producers and limit their hold on primary rights to five years under new proposals from the Independent Television Commission (ITC), writes Jane Marlow.
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NewsBragg speaks up for ITV 'indies'
Broadcasting peer Melvyn Bragg has made an impassioned plea for Ofcom to allow smaller independent ITV companies to be given independent production status, writes David Rose.