TV and Radio Compliance Consultant
TV or radio broadcasters of religious, advice or discussion programming better take care over the coming weeks and months. This week Ofcom revealed that it will be monitoring services carrying this sort of content for potentially harmful material. The regulator… Continue
John McAndrew (pictured) starts his new job as Director of News Programmes at the BBC this month. One of the important issues he must deal with is impartiality. That the BBC has – or had – a ‘problem’ in this… Continue
Some viewers watching ITV Sport’s coverage of the pulsating World Cup Final on 18 December raised an eyebrow when English football pundit and former player Gary Neville criticised the current government. In answering a question about human rights and the… Continue
Despite the turmoil over the UK economy, summer officially ended and autumn began on 23 September. And still no news from Ofcom on an important review affecting all TV and radio broadcasters but which remains shrouded by uncertainty. Broadcasters, their… Continue
It is now a two months since Ofcom took the exceptional step on 31 March 2022 of suspending the broadcasting licence of the small Birmingham-based Sikh channel, KTV. The suspension forced the service off air immediately prior to probable revocation… Continue
The gates to RT broadcasts in the UK are now closed. With unprecedented speed the UK media regulator moved today to revoke the two British licences of the Russian international broadcaster RT. Ofcom stripped RT of the licences with immediate… Continue
This week’s Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin (443) has confirmed the trend. The Bulletin has been on a diet. Compared to Bulletins before the pandemic, there have been fewer Standards decisions published – whether breaches of the Broadcasting Code or other rules,… Continue
Margarita Simonyan, the feisty Editor-in-chief of RT (formerly Russia Today), may increasingly be having second thoughts about starting a legal challenge to Ofcom over its application of the due impartiality rules. In the first ever ruling by the Court of… Continue
A month ago Piers Morgan gave the thumbs up to Ofcom’s high profile ruling clearing him of breaching the Broadcasting Code over his comments about Meghan Markle on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. He acclaimed it as a ringing endorsement of… Continue