TV and Radio Compliance Consultant
GB News is the new(ish) kid on the block of TV news and opinion broadcasting. Next month (in June 2023) it will celebrate its second anniversary of going on air, with the self-proclaimed aim of providing a right wing, ‘anti-woke’… Continue
Ofcom has issued a stark warning to television services about the use of ‘deep fakes’ in programmes (see Broadcast Bulletin, 3 April 2023). Although the regulator’s new Note to Broadcasters does not refer to the ‘deep fake’ images of the… Continue
King Charles may not have complained to Ofcom yet. But he will have the ability to make a formal complaint to media regulator Ofcom about the controversial way he is portrayed as Prince of Wales in episodes of the hit… Continue
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
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
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
As consultant with leading West End media firm, Simons Muirhead, I was privileged last night to be invited on to both the Al Jazeera Arabic and English services (see picture) to seek to explain the great Al Arabiya mystery. Why… Continue
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.