TV and Radio Compliance Consultant
GB News presenters have toppled like ninepins. The Rev. Calvin Robinson (pictured) was the third to be suspended by GB News after he supported fellow presenter, former actor and political activist Laurence Fox for his highly offensive remarks about political… Continue
…And a question for Ofcom When on 6 July Labour leader Keir Starmer said he felt ‘very uncomfortable’ about industrial action by university lecturers leaving students unable to graduate, it made a few headlines and was the lead story that… Continue
Observers have not fully appreciated the significance to Ofcom of Kevin Bakhurst, Ofcom’s Group Director of Broadcasting and Online Content (pictured), leaving the regulator to become Director-General of Ireland’s public service broadcaster, RTE. Bakhurst is now on six months’ gardening… Continue
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
John Hardie (pictured) will not be lacking advice in the coming months. The BBC has announced that this former CEO and editor-in-chief of ITN and an executive vice president at Walt Disney will lead the independent review of its social… 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
Ofcom’s decision (Bulletin 406) to find China’s state TV station broke fairness and privacy rules by broadcasting the ‘forced confession’ of British former journalist Peter Humphrey (pictured) has thrust the regulator onto the sharp horns of a high profile sanctions… Continue
The momentous decision in the judicial review case brought by Russian broadcaster RT against Ofcom has not been given the attention it deserves. Hardly surprising in some ways because it was published on 27 March, five days into the UK’s… Continue