An ad for climate change programing in which politicians and business leaders were shown with a ‘carbon skid mark,’ which attracted the ire of Conservative lawmakers, was Channel 4‘s most-complained-about content of 2023. Releasing its complaints list for the first time, which is separate from regulator Ofcom‘s annual breakdown, the Channel 4 Change Climate Season
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GB News has been hit with its first Ofcom breach over the network’s Don’t Kill Cash campaign and more could be incoming. The regulator this morning said GB News had broken two parts of its code over the campaign lobbying politicians to stop Britain from moving away from being a cashless society. Ofcom swiftly opened
UK TV and radio has hit a major milestone with half of workers now based outside of London, but a lack of diversity in the upper echelons remains an issue, according to Ofcom‘s latest diversity report. The regulator’s seventh Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in TV and Radio report found that 44% of those who work
Laurence Fox‘s GB News show, in which stand-in presenter Martin Daubney interviewed Reform Party leader Richard Tice about the hot-button small boats issue, has become the latest to be found in breach by Ofcom. The regulator has rapped GB News once again for “due impartiality” issues, following an interview between Daubney and Tice that was
UKTV has been wrapped by Ofcom for subtitling the word “f***ing” twice during a repeat of Casualty that aired at 10.30 in the morning. British broadcasters are not allowed to swear in shows prior to the 9 p.m. GMT watershed but UKTV said in this instance the word was “incorrectly subtitled” and was “not audible”
CBS Reality, the UK channel owned by AMC Networks International and Paramount, has apologized for airing the N-word before the 9PM watershed. The television channel mistakenly aired an unedited episode of true-crime series Evidence of Evil at 5PM on January 23, 2023. The show featured footage of a police interview with a suspected murderer, in
UK networks are being told to get real on deepfakes. In a note sent to broadcasters today (April 3), media regulator Ofcom advised them to “consider carefully” whether they need to update their compliance procedures to account for the risks involved with deepfake content. Ofcom listed a number of challenges that deepfakes pose to broadcasters,
Love Island contestants will have their social media accounts taken away for the duration of the upcoming winter season and receive “guidance and training around mutually respective behavior in relationships” following thousands of complaints earlier this year. For the first time in the show’s history, the ninth winter season will oblige the contestants to pause