November 29th 2006
By: Russ
Tomorrow, Ofcom will host an interesting event (link here) that explores our converged digital world and how it is impacted by regulation and policy.
It's an event that will bring together the leadership of BT, Ofcom, BSkyB, Channel 4, NTL:Telewest for a two-day long exploration of some very interesting themes.
We ...
November 28th 2006
By: Russ
Conservative MEP Syed Kamall posted this YouTube video, setting forth his opposition to the proposed audio-visual media services directive.
Kamall makes a good point, but not all product placement is so obvious as he portrays. Sometimes it is so subtle and skillfully accomplished that we need the protection of EU ...
November 28th 2006
By: Russ
OfcomWatch friend Keith McMahon of Telebusillis offers a skeptical view about where Ofcom is headed with respect to VoIP regulation.
Put in the larger context of the Junk Food Ad Ban and ITV control issues, McMahon says he is 'worried, extremely worried about OFCOM'.
Comment: I'm not sure Elizabeth Judge has ...
November 27th 2006
By: Don Redding
Ofcom has commissioned the voluntary sector coalition, Public Voice (of which I have been until now the co-ordinator) to run the voluntary sector part of its forthcoming consultation on the allocation of the digital dividend. The commission is a recognition of the potential interest that civil society and voluntary sector ...
November 26th 2006
By: Russ
The Sunday Times' India Knight has critical words for Ofcom over its junk food (HFSS) adverts ban around children's programming. She writes:
I'm seldom in favour of bans - they presuppose unimaginable stupidity, and I like to cling to the forlorn hope that this country isn't, in fact, entirely populated ...
November 24th 2006
By: Scott
Ofcom today fined Television Concepts Ltd (in respect of its service Look4Love) 175,000 GBP and issued it with notice of its intention to revoke its licence. Ofcom has decided to take action following a number of serious breaches of the BCAP TV Advertising Standards Code and the Television Concepts ...
November 24th 2006
By: Russ
In today's Times Ed Richards delivers a straightforward and very candid review of the politics and regulatory principles underlying Ofcom's actions in the regulation of advertising of HFSS (junk) foods.
It's a well-written piece: Richards skillfully portrays Ofcom as the evidence-based purveyor of regulation having to navigate its way ...
November 23rd 2006
By: Russ
People may have read recently about Talk Talk's bad press due to its promotions and seeming inability to provide service or customer service to its broadband customers:
About 100,000 of the 500,000 people who have persisted with their application for the firm's 'free broadband forever' offer, launched in April, are still ...
November 22nd 2006
By: Russ
I was suffering through Peter Wilby's anti-Murdoch rant in Comment is Free and came across this nugget in one of the comments:
The joke in glasgow is that if you have only the 5 normal tv channels you've got 'council telly'. The wife cracked up at a works meeting to ...
November 18th 2006
By: Roger Darlington
The Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Bill - which will merge Postwatch and Energywatch with the National Consumer Council - received its First Reading in the House of Lords on Thursday. A date for Second Reading has been yet for 4 December.
Under the Government's original proposals, there was a possibility ...
