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
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
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