The latest Ofcom Broadcast Billetin is out today. These always make for interesting reading. I sometimes wish they would include details of all the complaints though.
For example, what substance abuse did someone think they saw in Basil - The Great Mouse Detective?
Haha! I see C4's pigeon advert is still getting complaints!
How much of that report is taken up by The Great Global Warming Swindle?!
EDIT: 2 other things I've just noticed - it says in the table at the end that there was a complaint for Secret Diary of a Call Girl on ITV3. Has it ever been on ITV3?
And also, there are 3 complaints for a programme called Sanningens something on Kanal 5. Am I right in saying that this is one of those Swedish channels that have their base in the UK because of costs or regulations or something? If so do viewers have to complain to Ofcom rather than their own media watchdog? Do Ofcom have a team of Swedish translaters working there?!
Though more appropriate to this forum, I see a complaint against
C4 "Pigeon" ident
got 2 complaints on the gounds of "Animal Welfare". Strange it gives an exact date of broadcast of 07/07/2008. Do you think that it was that particular showing on that day, or they just picked a random one as it is broadcast so often?
ITV2 got rapped for some films in American Idol featuring prominent shots of Ford cars.
Not too sure where I stand on the imported product placement issue - I'd have probably thought nothing of that (had I seen it), but the blurred Coca Cola stuff they try desperately to block out is so blatantly obvious all it does it draw attention to it.
And also, there are 3 complaints for a programme called Sanningens something on Kanal 5. Am I right in saying that this is one of those Swedish channels that have their base in the UK because of costs or regulations or something? If so do viewers have to complain to Ofcom rather than their own media watchdog? Do Ofcom have a team of Swedish translaters working there?!
If Swedish TV is as good as its reputation makes it out to be it won't need much translating!
And also, there are 3 complaints for a programme called Sanningens something on Kanal 5. Am I right in saying that this is one of those Swedish channels that have their base in the UK because of costs or regulations or something? If so do viewers have to complain to Ofcom rather than their own media watchdog? Do Ofcom have a team of Swedish translaters working there?!
I believe if they broadcast officially in the UK then they fall under Ofcom's rules
There has been instances before of someone complaining about something on one of the asian channels and Ofcom tackling the owners, even though all they do is just rebroadcast the normal asian version of the channel
And also, there are 3 complaints for a programme called Sanningens something on Kanal 5. Am I right in saying that this is one of those Swedish channels that have their base in the UK because of costs or regulations or something? If so do viewers have to complain to Ofcom rather than their own media watchdog? Do Ofcom have a team of Swedish translaters working there?!
I believe if they broadcast officially in the UK then they fall under Ofcom's rules
There has been instances before of someone complaining about something on one of the asian channels and Ofcom tackling the owners, even though all they do is just rebroadcast the normal asian version of the channel
This was always my understanding too, but a few years ago I complained about the GOD Channel (can't really remember why - may have been some sort of 'grr @ religion' teen angst moment), and I was told that they couldn't investigate it, and to contact the Spanish regulator which they were licensed with, even though I understood rebroadcasts were just as susceptible to their rule.
There has been instances before of someone complaining about something on one of the asian channels and Ofcom tackling the owners, even though all they do is just rebroadcast the normal asian version of the channel
This was always my understanding too, but a few years ago I complained about the GOD Channel (can't really remember why - may have been some sort of 'grr @ religion' teen angst moment), and I was told that they couldn't investigate it, and to contact the Spanish regulator which they were licensed with, even though I understood rebroadcasts were just as susceptible to their rule.
AIUI it's to do with where a channel originates from, some channels broadcasting to Scandinavia, Poland and some other countries originate and are uplinked from the UK, so they are licensed here.
Not sure about God TV, they are based in Sunderland but I beliee that the channel now originates in Israel, they do now appear to be licensed outside the UK despite appearing on UK platforms.
I assume it's an EU 'Television Without Frontiers' thing - I suspect that it's ok as long as a channel is licensed somewhere in the EU... for example, Eurosport and Euronews don't have an Ofcom license. There are channels that originate outside the EU that are licensed by Ofcom
