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
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
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
Well, not quite…but any explicit sex must be limited and shown late in the schedule. That is the message from three breach findings Ofcom published this week (Bulletin 381) against Channel 5. The broadcaster transmitted three observational documentaries about the… Continue
This week’s Broadcast Bulletin from Ofcom is a bumper one: 132 pages in total, and although the Jimmy Carr decision (on which more later) grabbed the headlines, many of the others are worthy of comment – not least that involving… Continue
Sky is breaking out the bubbly this week! In a move that shows that Ofcom is – if slowly – adjusting to the rapidly changing audiovisual environment, the regulator is allowing TV broadcasters in the UK to show post 9pm… Continue
A fascinating decision today by Ofcom (8 October 2018) suggests the regulator might be adopting a slightly softer line on due impartiality. All broadcasters involved in this area should study it very closely. It is quite exceptional for Ofcom to… Continue
Ofcom’s latest Broadcast Bulletin (25 September 2018) offers a timely reminder to broadcasters about the need to stop star presenters turning into crusaders on air and ignoring the need to be duly impartial and fair. The… Continue