June 13th 2006
By: Scott
Dear fellow Ofcom-watchers and readers. I have been trialling a new wiki product from wetpaint and decided for some reason that a telecoms wiki might be a nice idea. The purpose/aim of Wiki is to provide information and links to useful resources - free and fee - on telecommunications. Whether ...
June 13th 2006
By: Scott
Ofcom has upheld a number of complaints relating to items on the Scott Mills show (BBC Radio 1) and the Chris Moyles show (BBC Radio 1) and warned the station that it has concerns about both the number and, in some cases the seriousness of compliance issues relating to the ...
June 9th 2006
By: Russ
Felicity Lawrence takes aim at Ofcom in this Comment is Free piece today.
It's interesting how the first people (other than this site) to publicly criticise Ofcom for its tendency to engage in a one-sided, salesmanship approach to public consultation are the health food campaigners. Who could have predicted?
On the ...
June 6th 2006
By: Roger Darlington
The UK public consultation on the European Commission's proposals to amend the Television without Frontiers Directive - now to be known as the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS) - opened today.
The consultation documents and full details on how to respond are available on the DCMS website here.
The consultation ...
June 6th 2006
By: Russ
I recently wrote that, after a recent meeting with Ofcom:
The challenge for Ofcom and DCMS is direct engagement with those parties that
may be adversely affected by the EC's proposals. To the best of their knowledge,
Ofcom said that they had not been approached by a single entity with a problem
with ...
June 5th 2006
By: Russ
Ian Darby gives a quick overview of Carter's tenure at Ofcom, with a media (and advertising) focus. Story here.
The Sunday Herald also looks at Richards as the possible successor to Stephen Carter. Richards defends the much-criticised Public Service Publisher (PSP).
Richards also made it clear that rumours of the death of ...
June 1st 2006
By: EuroTelcoBlog
OFCOM's consumer panel has released an update on consumer attitudes to, and awareness of, a variety of communications services in the UK. This makes interesting reading, and includes for the first time some questions on VoIP. Only 10% of respondents claimed to understand the term "VoIP," and only around 16% ...
June 1st 2006
By: Russ
Someone recently handed me the publication Regulating Communications, the Future of UK Communications & Broadcasting by Keith Boyfield (European Media Forum). You can buy it online here. I quickly read it yesterday, and here are some of the more interesting nuggets from my perspective:
* Ofcom gets high marks generally, ...
June 1st 2006
By: Russ
Folks, you may notice that our 'Recent Posts' and 'Archive' are missing from the right-hand side of the website. We're experiencing some technical problems and reorganising the site in response.
Our three-year archive is still searchable in Google - just add 'site:ofcomwatch.co.uk' to the end of your Google search and ...
