But as a channel uplinked in the UK, they still have to conform to the Ofcom code.
Yes, but as I mentioned above it's irrelevant if much of their content is impartial as it doesn't cover UK domestic politics. Why should them broadcasting a non-balanced discussion on Obama or healthcare be of any concern to us over here?
Aren't News International campaigning for that to be dropped here too, so basically Sky could declare it's support for the Tories at the election in the same way The Sun have jumped on the bandwagon.
I hope that never happens. No TV company should be allowed to give a political opinion as they do in America. Mind you, it's quite clear who Adam Boulton supports through his blogs and his interview with Gordon Brown after the Labour conference.
In America, as others have said, broadcasters are free to have an opinion, in the same way as newspapers have over here.
Clearly FOX News (and others) break a strict reading of the rules regularly.
This then leads to a massive issue for OFCOM, in, do they ban US news broadcasters from the UK?
I think that in reality they wouldn't because of the issues that would cause. Would the UK be one of very few countries to ban news from what is one of our closest allies? I can't see it. Any attempt to do so would open such a can or worms, that the most likely outcome would be a reduction in the impartiality rules for our broadcasters.
I personally can't see the difference between allowing newspapers to be biased (and ours are some of the most biased in the world) and allowing other media.
Fox News has been censured on one or two occasions, most notably when a presenter had a go at the BBC, but I suspect such limited actions are more a reflection on OFCOM defending the BBC rather than anything else.
40 pages of the Boys and Girls Alone documentary, of which anybody who saw the series on Channel 4 will probably work out that the media blew the entire thing out of all proportion.
Elsewhere, not a lot to go on this time:
Sex/Nudity on KNTV Sex.
Incitement to crime on Newsround, apparently. John Noakes will be pleased.
Apparently Corrie's inaccurate in some way.
My God we really do have a bunch of sad tossers over here, how can you complain about "scenes of a sexual nature" in a programme that contains sex in the title.
As for complaining that Coronation Street was inaccurate, well duh!
My God we really do have a bunch of sad tossers over here, how can you complain about "scenes of a sexual nature" in a programme that contains sex in the title.
But that's just the way Ofcom list the objection, it could be that someone felt that KNTV Sex was being broadcast at the wrong time of day (it's a C4 schools programme) but it still gets listed as Sex/Nudity.
My God we really do have a bunch of sad tossers over here, how can you complain about "scenes of a sexual nature" in a programme that contains sex in the title.
But that's just the way Ofcom list the objection, it could be that someone felt that KNTV Sex was being broadcast at the wrong time of day (it's a C4 schools programme) but it still gets listed as Sex/Nudity.
According to the C4 website, "The series [KNTV Sex] is aimed at 14-19 year olds, and is relevant to themes covered in Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education at KS3 and 4 and Health and Wellbeing at the third to fourth level."
KNTV Sex is a 10-part animated series offering a uniquely engaging take on sex and relationships education. It features the return of teenage geniuses Kierky and Nietzsche, last seen in KNTV Philosophy. Our two animated hosts are best buddies from the People's Republic of Slabovia, the 'last communist state in Europe'. Having stumbled across an abandoned government warehouse full of archive footage, they set out to achieve their ultimate dream – to make their own TV series. KNTV Sex is the result. With the help of their amazing team of Slabovian experts, Kierky and Nietzsche go on a journey of sexual discovery.
In fact tracing this back through C4's programme schedule archive, the two episodes of KNTV Sex flagged up were Programme 8: Sexuality and Programme 9: Fantasy, arousal and desire. Both went out at 10:30am. Programme 9 (15 complainers) features topics "such as erogenous zones, role-play, masturbation, sex toys, visual stimulation and pornography, oral sex, orgasm (and faking it), fetishes, bondage, fantasy versus perversion, and, briefly, the issue of consent.".
Sexcetera: Sex/Nudity well what do you expect on a programme about sex
some people, would complane about too much food on a cookery programme
on a side note do broadcasters need permission to show everybody they film as I apeared on North West tonight for a brief second photographing the presenters when they showed a behind the scenes of their programme the did from the town I live in
should the have got my permission to put it in (I don't mind, I'm just curious, and it was in 2007)
on a side note do broadcasters need permission to show everybody they film as I apeared on North West tonight for a brief second photographing the presenters when they showed a behind the scenes of their programme the did from the town I live in
Depends on the context.
Usually if you make significant contributions to a show (such as being interviewed) clearance is needed for it, otherwise no. If you look at the BBC Contributions site they state you can only get a copy of a programme if you made a significant contribution to said programme. Being in the audience or a viewing crowd doesn't count.
With regards to the bulletin, what on earth is "Teletext Page 301 11/10/2009 ITV1 Generally Accepted
Standards, one complaint"? Somebody complaining about the news service on Teletext? Won't be a problem after next month, will it?
I still find it amazing that Derren Brown's "glue everybody to their seat" experiment wasn't complained about at all, since it didn't affect everybody, contained (deliberate) subliminal images and the entire saga was a complainer's dream, yet Mastermind apparently contains flashing images, which I very much doubt.
