Tag Archives: ofcom

An independent review commissioned by the UK Government to look at how the BBC is governed and regulated has concluded that the current model should be replaced. The report, which forms part of the Government’s review of the BBC’s Royal ...

I know you all like to hear about my problems with Virgin Media, the cutting edge of the cable revolution (nobody thinks, least of all them). Anyway, VM finally admitted today that they have a faulty cable in my area ...

LOL – now he knows what it means – must have been David Cameron’s reaction after reading Lord Leveson’s report on the culture, practice and ethics of the UK press. First came an audible sigh of relief over the vindication ...

Much muttering in UK adland about TV copy clearance gatekeeper Clearcast’s decision to ban SodaStream’s Alex Bogusky ad knocking plastic bottle consumption. Not only do they suspect the board of Clearcast – made up of representatives of the main UK ...

Which looks like a pretty cunning plan. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is planning to hive off its troubled UK newspaper business into a separate company (along with its other papers like the Wall Street Journal), leaving its ‘entertainment’ assets – ...

Why should we, you ask, when it’s so much fun? It is indeed fun to observe the over-mighty Murdochs, paterfamilias Rupert and once super-cocky son James suffering the slings and arrows of the commentariat, various MPs and, rather more worryingly ...

It all seems a long time ago now but, pre-dating the phone hacking scandal’s full glory, the big media story in the UK was News Corporation’s bid to buy the 61 per cent of UK pay-TV operator BSkyB it didn’t ...

One sometimes wonders if there’s anyone at all within the UK’s overlapping gaggle of regulators who understands anything at all about media sales. Broadcast regulator Ofcom has given the UK’s TV airtime market a clean bill of health following a ...

Rupert Murdoch has pulled News Corporation’s bid to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB it doesn’t own saying the ‘current climate’ makes it impossible. This happened shortly before the House of Commons was due to debate a motion opposing ...