Stephen Carter honoured…

Former Ofcom CEO Stephen Carter was honoured in the New Years lists with a CBE 'for services to the Communications Industry'.

Dan Sabbagh: Ofcom worked hard in 2006

The Times ran a year-end summary piece on Ofcom on December 29th. Click here for the story. Dan Sabbagh reviews Ofcom from a workload perspective, claiming that the regulator issued nearly 1000 policy documents during 2006.I'm not surprised. Running a site like OfcomWatch means we keep a close eye ...

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August 5th 2008
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OfcomWatch South HQ: Atlanta

Fellow OfcomWatch co-founder Luke Gibbs and I -- in full OW uniform -- visited CNN HQ in Atlanta today. Our mission: spread Ofcom-related love and cheer to the new world via the world's most trusted news source.  Unfortunately we instead found ourselves in the CNN studio tour. Atlanta is ...
August 4th 2008
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Media policy position open at Univ of Oxford

Hey folks, I am back from the beach but still stuck in this Atlanta heat for another week... Here's a job opportunity for those of you -- like me -- that could not get into engineering or medicine. The Centre for Socio Legal Studies (CSLS) at the University of Oxford ...
July 24th 2008
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OfcomWatch: on holiday…

Well folks, the lazy days of summer are upon us.  Let's face it:  the regulatory environment in the UK was turning into a bit of a mid-summer bust -- capped off with the BBC's report that it adds billions of pounds to the UK economy each year.  Funny how the ...
July 24th 2008
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Ofcom to permit more advertising

See the Ofcom press release below. More advertising is a good thing. It will: (i) drive people to get tools like Sky+ or products like DVD box sets or iTunes downloads; and (ii) possibly encourage people to read more. I suppose if the new advertising funds better ...
July 21st 2008
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Guardian’s Maggie Brown on Ofcom’s ‘chairman’s challenge’; Monday round-up…

UPDATE on GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE RULING: I've now taken the time to read Ofcom's ruling. What can one say about a controversial television programme on a complex topic? Surely it will contain errors of some sorts. Surely it will upset some people. Does Ofcom's decision really remedy ...

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