All Regulation articles – Page 85
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NewsC4 and BBCW deal: favourite, but not sealed
A Channel 4 and BBC Worldwide joint venture looks set to win government backing, but the two parties are yet to sign a draft proposal less than two weeks ahead of the Digital Britain report.
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ITV and UTV defend £100m budget for regional news
ITV and UTV have stepped in to defend Ofcom’s proposed £100m budget for regional news, after the BBC dismissed the figure as “fantasy”.
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NewsBGT sparks 350 complaints
Nearly 350 complaints were lodged with Ofcom last weekend over Britain’s Got Talent – but less than 16 of them were about the treatment of singing sensation Susan Boyle.
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NewsBurnham: More care needed with talent show contestants
Culture secretary Andy Burnham has called on broadcasters to prioritise their “duty of care” to talent show contestants following Susan Boyle’s admission to the Priory.
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NewsOfcom considers Britain's Got Talent investigation
Britain’s Got Talent could be facing investigation by Ofcom after the watchdog revealed viewers complained about the Saturday results show.
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Teleshopping on PSB channels given green light
Ofcom has allowed teleshopping on commercial PSB channels for the first time, but has denied them a potential £44m in extra advertising revenue after standing firm on the amount of ads they are allowed.
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NewsCeleb Big Brother cleared over Coolio complaints
Ofcom has rejected 527 complaints about both the behaviour and depiction of rapper Coolio in this year’s Celebrity Big Brother.
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MPs reject licence fee freeze
More than 150 MPs voted to freeze the BBC licence fee at last year’s level yesterday - but the Tory motion was comfortably defeated in the House of Commons.
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NewsMannion questions Ofcom's plans for news
ITV News editor-in-chief David Mannion has questioned whether independent regional news consortia could produce stories to a network standard, and believes that ITN is best placed to take over any new regional news contracts.
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Kids TV campaign revived
Indie trade body Pact has stepped up a campaign to increase children’s television production in the UK, which will see the return of a Womble as their spokesman.
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Liverpool's City Talk to change format
Ofcom has granted City Talk 105.9 in Liverpool permission to change its format and play music - but has imposed a number of conditions.
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C4 rapped over Ramsay; pre-watershed sex cleared
Ofcom has rapped Channel 4 over Gordon Ramsay’s swearing immediately after the watershed – but has cleared pre-watershed sex that was “at the edge of acceptability”.
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Gaunt rapped by Ofcom over 'Nazi' jibe
Former TalkSport presenter Jon Gaunt has been censured by Ofcom over an interview in which he called a Redbridge councillor a “Nazi” – a comment that led to the sacking of the radio host.
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Emmerdale censured over violence
A fist-fight between Emmerdale brothers Mathew and Carl King has been criticised as too violent for a pre-watershed audience by media regulator Ofcom.
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Tory plot to block licence fee rise
The Conservatives are threatening the stability of the BBC’s finances by forcing an unprecedented House of Commons vote on whether to freeze the BBC licence fee at last year’s level.
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NUJ: overhaul policing of media at protests
Police officers should be made accountable for breaching guidelines drawn up with the BBC and other organisations for policing demonstrations like the G20, the NUJ has told Parliament.
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Grade backs radical regional news plan
Michael Grade today backed Ofcom's call for independently-funded news consortia to deliver regional services, but warned that decisions were needed quickly for the sake of local news.
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ITV regional news replacement may cost£100m
Ofcom's proposed independently-funded news consortia replacements for ITV's regional news coverage could cost up to£100m, the regulator has calculated.
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Speech: Ed Richards on independently-funded news consortia
Speech given by Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards about independently-funded news consortia on 28 April 2009.
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BBC may share resources with local news services
The BBC is expected to unveil proposals for a deal with local news services that would see it share resources with newspapers, TV and radio stations for the first time.