February 28th 2007
By: Russ
One of the things that keeps me awake at night my dreams is that Ofcom destroys our humble blog by simply creating a blog of its own -- engaging with the public in a casual, Comment-Ain't-Free style that's not binding on anyone, but serves as a listening-talking-thinking forum for the ...
February 26th 2007
By: Roger Darlington
Public Voice has petitioned the Prime Minister to ensure that spectrum freed for use following digital switchover is available for citizen and community uses, by rejecting the notion that all of it is sold off to the highest bidder.
The petition, online at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/CitizensSpectrum, is a response to the feeling among ...
February 26th 2007
By: Luke
In accordance with Section 44A of the Enterprise Act, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Alistair Darling, has today asked Ofcom to conduct an initial investigation into British Sky Broadcasting Group's acquisition of a 17.9% stake in ITV plc.
This is the first time a special intervention notice has been ...
February 26th 2007
By: Russ
As everyone by now has probably read, Ofcom last Thursday announced the details of its restrictions on certain television advertisements for foods high in fat, salt and sugar (HFSS). I thought I would wait a few days and assemble some of the more notable or interesting reactions. Here ...
February 22nd 2007
By: Russ
The Ofcom Consumer Panel has just submitted its response to Ofcom's Annual plan 2007/08. The full document is here. The Panel's primary aim in this document is to highlight problematical areas of access and inclusion across the sector and issue a blunt challenge to Ofcom in the form of a ...
February 20th 2007
By: Russ
Ofcom have posted some of the consultation responses it has received in the DDR. 23 are posted so far. Click here to view the responses.
(Annoyingly, Ofcom's website stores these alphabetically and has no sort feature so it won't enable a person to know which responses are 'new' the next time one ...
February 20th 2007
By: Russ
Ofcom yesterday released the full texts of FM radio licence award decisions covering Manchester (click here) and Herefordshire / Monmouthshire (click here).
The Manchester FM radio licence went to an affiliate of the Guardian Media Group and the Herfordshire/Monmouthshire radio licence went to an entity owned by Laser Broadcasting, which owns ...
February 18th 2007
By: Russ
The Guardian money section on Saturday says don't buy new HD-ready televisions. (And a few weeks ago -- I meant to blog it but forgot -- the Sunday Times money section said don't use Skype.). We're told:
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"We've been warning members that they're better off with their old-style CRT ...
February 16th 2007
By: Russ
Today's MediaGuardian (Tara Conlan) takes aim at the BBC's 'carbon footprint' and amount of waste. We're told that the BBC's '[c]arbon emissions went up to almost 0.25 tonnes per broadcast hour in 2005, compared with just over 0.15 tonnes the year before.'
Shouldn't the BBC's carbon emissions be measured in ...
February 16th 2007
By: KeithJamesMc
OFCOM have announced they are going to investigate the proposed Sky DTT service with the following terms of reference:
Firstly, the impact on consumers of Sky's proposal to use MPEG4 compression technology via new set-top boxes, in order to increase the amount of content which can be carried. Ofcom would need ...
