All Regulation articles – Page 94
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NewsOfcom rap ITV1 over transport plan ads
Ofcom has rapped ITV1 Granada over an ad for the Greater Manchester transport plan, finding it breached the TV advertising code.
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NewsCall for PSB contracts to be open to public bodies
Media Festival: Enabling public bodies to bid for PSB contracts would create a “step change” for underserved genres and open up opportunities for indies not seen since the creation of Channel 4 in 1982, the chief executive of the UK Film Council has declared.
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NewsCarter: BBC sharing plans should go beyond PSBs
Media Festival: Minister for communications, technology and broadcasting Stephen Carter has called on the BBC to extend its soon-to-be-announced information sharing initiative beyond the usual public service broadcasters.
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NewsRedmond: PSB broadcasters disconnected from real life
Media Festival: Brookside creator Phil Redmond has kickstarted The Media Festival by accusing PSB broadcasters of being disconnected from the cultural life of the UK and insisting they must change or face extinction.
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NewsGovt scraps plans to help C4 with switchover costs
The government has scrapped proposals to hand Channel 4£14m of licence fee funds for digital switchover as it prepares to speed up wider plans to address the future shape of public service broadcasting.
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NewsThinktank backs contestable PSB funding
An economic thinktank has called on the government to protect the whole “family” of PSB channels by inviting commercial broadcasters to bid for PSB contracts.
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NewsEastEnders stabbing escapes censure
A controversial EastEnders episode that featured a violent stabbing was acceptable for a pre-watershed audience, Ofcom has ruled.
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NewsOfcom: BBC local video would have negative market impact
The BBC's proposed local video service would have a “significant negative impact” on commercial rivals and threaten future innovation, Ofcom has warned.
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NewsTrust to ‘contain' BBCW activity, Lyons tells MPs
The Sachsgate row has overshadowed the BBC Trust's clearest indication yet that it will rein in BBC Worldwide's activities.
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NewsMPs stand firm on product placement ban
The government has indicated it will not back down and allow product placement in programmes to help relieve ITV's financial problems.
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CommentBlog: Pact's product placement plans
Media law expert Medwyn Jones applauds Pact's decision to create a code of practice for product placement and hopes it will show culture secretary Andy Burnham that his approach is misguided.
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NewsITV signs up to TV product placement code
ITV is the first broadcaster to sign up to Pact's proposed voluntary code of conduct on product placement.
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NewsOfcom may investigate Laura's X Factor eviction
Ofcom is deciding if it will investigate voting procedures for ITV's X Factor after more than 43,000 people signed a petition to reinstate eliminated contestant Laura White.
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NewsMPs to grill BBC bosses on Sachsgate
BBC bosses face will be quizzed by MPs about the Ross/Brand prank call next Tuesday, as part of a Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee investigation.
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NewsUTV petitioned to halt job cuts
The leaders of all the major political parties in Northern Ireland have united to implore northern Irish broadcaster UTV to halt its plans to cut 35 jobs from the service.
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NewsBurnham: BBC needs confidence back
Media secretary Andy Burnham is prepared to listen to suggestions from the Tories of how to help restore public confidence in the BBC following 'Sachsgate'.
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NewsBBC misled 'Weekend Nazis'
The BBC misled two military re-eneactors featured in the BBC1 documentary Weekend Nazis about the purpose of the programme, Ofcom has ruled.
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NewsCarter reveals Digital Britain experts
New communications, technology and broadcasting minister Stephen Carter has announced the panel of experts that will help him develop the blueprint for Britain's digital future.
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Industry pleads for product placement
Commercial broadcasters have spelled out the benefits of product placement in their submissions to the government's inquiry into whether to relax rules on the practice.
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NewsBBCW under fire over first look deal
Fremantle Media and Pact have demanded an end to BBC Worldwide's guaranteed chance to secure distribution rights to BBC in-house content ahead of commercial rivals.