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Ofcom fines TV channel DM Digital for broadcasting 'duty to kill' speech by Islamic scholar
Friday 05 July 2013
A television channel has been hit with a hefty fine after broadcasting a speech by an Islamic scholar who said Muslims had “a duty to kill” anyone who insulted the prophet.
TV channels fined over Michael Jackson and Milly Dowler claims
Friday 21 June 2013
Two television channels have been fined a total of £22,500 after they featured psychics making claims about singer Michael Jackson and murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
Company behind Bid and Price Drop shopping channels found to have made misleading price claims and product descriptions
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Sit-Up could have its broadcast licence revoked after Advertising Standards Authority asks broadcasting regulator Ofcom to consider sanctions
TalkTalk fined £750,000 for making excessive number of silent calls
Thursday 18 April 2013
Ofcom has fined TalkTalk £750,000 for making an excessive number of abandoned and silent calls, the regulator said.
Ofcom takes action on 'notoriously murky' charges for calling 0800 numbers
Monday 15 April 2013
While they are promoted as freephone, the lines often hit mobile users in the pocket
Search launched to replace Hall on board of Channel 4
Monday 08 April 2013
The hunt is on at Channel 4 for a director to replace Tony Hall, who stood down as deputy chairman to become director general of the BBC.
Teatime broadcast of Most Haunted breached broadcasting code
Monday 18 March 2013
A teatime screening of paranormal TV show Most Haunted was ruled to have breached the broadcasting code by regulator Ofcom.
X Factor rapped by Ofcom for excessively plugging hotel where finalists stayed
Monday 21 January 2013
The X Factor breached broadcasting rules by giving excessive plugs to the hotel where the show’s finalists stayed, the broadcasting watchdog ruled.
Failure in Line of Duty: BBC guilty of 'serious lapse' in care of 13-year-old actor
Monday 17 December 2012
Actor Gregory Piper, who plays Ryan Pilkington in police drama Line of Duty, was not sufficiently protected from emotional distress during filming of a 'highly violent and adult nature'
Government hopes for 4G airwaves windfall boosted by successful auctions abroad
Monday 17 December 2012
Demand could see UK auction raise more than £2 billion
Well-judged and well-received: if Leveson is Santa, this is shaping up to be a wonderful Christmas
Thursday 29 November 2012
Our writer, a former Director of the Press Complaints Commission, declares himself happy with Leveson's report
ITV forced to stop airing The Only Way Is Essex before watershed after Ofcom condemns 'adult themes and sexual references'
Tuesday 06 November 2012
ITV took the decision to pull lunchtime repeats of The Only Way is Essex after Ofcom ruled that an episode broke scheduling rules put in place to protect children from unsuitable material
Mid-contract phone and broadband price hikes inspected
Thursday 18 October 2012
Customer concerns over mid-contract price hikes imposed by phone and broadband companies are to be investigated by the telecoms watchdog.
Viewers accuse new BBC sitcom of insulting Islam
Thursday 30 August 2012
It was supposed to be a ground-breaking new BBC comedy which finally placed a modern Asian family centre-stage. But Citizen Khan has proved no laughing matter after the sitcom prompted painful comparisons to the "racist" 1970s series Mind Your Language.
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- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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