There is a new academic study published today in the Archives of Diseases of Childhood that questions the effectiveness of Ofcom’s 2007 regulations prohibiting junk food advertising around children’s television programming.
I haven’t read the research ($20 to purchase it — thanks, guys) but here is a link to the abstract. It appears that the researchers [...]
This first one could be a parody of The Office. I kept waiting for Gareth Keenan to rock up…
And here’s some more BT Home Hub hatred:
Matthew Elliott at CentreRight has an interesting post about the digital switchover (DSO) portion of the licence fee and what should happen to it if it is not needed for DSO. He accuses Ofcom of being dishonest about its research into the public’s preferences.
On the one hand he shows an Ofcom slide that clearly shows [...]
I’m sure this one will have about 500 applicants:
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Job Title: Senior Policy Adviser
Division: Policy & Strategy, Operations Group
Grade: 10
Base: White City, London
Job Purpose
Provide high level policy support to key BBC projects in order to support the development of the BBC’s policies and strategies and to promote the BBC’s interests at a time of [...]
Ofcom just issued this press release (link) promoting its enforcement efforts over the past year. We’re told it was a record year for fines by the regulator.
(btw: Roger Darlington shows the necessity for robust enforcement in the consumer arena).
Ofcom’s press release reminds me of two things from my days as a communications lawyer in Washington, [...]
Simple: www.t-regs.com. Yves Blondeel has it covered…
The official announcement is here.
My (uniformed) take: It seems like a lot of nonsense. Too much intervention. Too much bureaucracy. Too many new ‘rights’ being created that will only raise unrealistic expectations — and create future disputes.
Item 4 is interesting: It promotes regulatory independence … of a certain kind. [...]
Roger Darlington just alerted us to an interesting new consultation on the consumer experience with mobile telephones — issues such as mobile coverage and commercial practices. It’s being organised by Consumer Focus. Details here. The deadline to respond is 23 June 2009.
So what do the people have to say? Here are some good YouTube videos [...]
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