TV and Radio Compliance Consultant
When dealing with an Ofcom issue many broadcasters just read the Code, other published documents and consult any relevant formal guidance. If there is an investigation they deal with Ofcom only through formal correspondence. My tip is do not neglect… Continue
Ofcom’s decision that Channel 5 breached television privacy rules in Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away is one of the most significant determinations of the regulator in this area in recent years. All lawyers interested in privacy, and people involved with… Continue
It is crucial for broadcasters to get appropriate consent from people being filmed. In a sensible and well-reasoned not in breach privacy decision on Channel 5’s Fatal Fog: Winter Road Rescue (pictured), Ofcom sets out the sort of factors it… Continue
This issue was highlighted by the recent Ofcom decision to order Channel 4 News to broadcast a summary of its determination that the programme had seriously breached Rule 5.1 of the Broadcasting Code (lack of due accuracy in news).
No – they are not hunting for an Ofcom decision on the BBC and due impartiality – but for snails. They might as well have been hunting for that elusive Ofcom published decision though because there have not been any.
Ofcom has just extended the categories by deciding for the first time that humiliating someone because of their obesity was a breach of this rule. See Bulletin 336, published 11 September 2017.
Poor CNN International – and with them all TV news broadcasters. Taking decisions about what violent material to show and when are some of the toughest calls they have to make.
While you were away on holiday you may not have noticed that the issue of children’s exposure to gambling adverts exploded into the headlines again. The amount spend on TV gambling adverts last year jumped by 43% to £150 million compared to 2012.
TAKE CAREFUL NOTE OF THE NEW GUIDANCE ON RULE 2.1. This is especially so if you a religious channel which might talk about faith healing or a service which features alternative medicine.