Tag: Emphasis

  • Emphasis on content self-regulation: Star

    Emphasis on content self-regulation: Star

    MUMBAI: Star India has clarified that it supports industry’s stand on self-regulation and some parental control as far as content regulation is concerned.

    Making his stand clear on a Ficci-Frames news report on content regulation carried by Indiantelevision.com last week, Star India VP Karan Kuljeet Singh, a speaker during the session, has said, “We do not have internal control rooms, as had been reported, but internal control systems and procedures.”

    Star India has also stressed the need for a universal rating system across the industry.

  • BBC’s new complaints procedure goes live

    BBC’s new complaints procedure goes live

    MUMBAI: An emphasis on greater transparency, objectivity and accountability underpins the BBC’s new procedure for handling editorial complaints across its channels in the UK. This procedure has gone live.

    The streamlined procedure is designed to make it easier for the British public to make a complaint and obtain, where appropriate, a speedy correction.

    A new code of practice has been published on the site bbc.co.uk/complaints. The aim is to ensure that the public is aware of what to expect when they make a complaint.

    The website will report on the volume and range of complaints it recieves. Where it is relevant the BBC will issue responses and details of clarifications, corrections as well as remedial actions being take