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MUMBAI: In the UK, TV is the most used platform for news (79 per cent) according to the 2018 News Consumption in the UK research report...
MUMBAI: Lord Terry Burns has been appointed as the next chairman of Ofcom. This follows the digital, culture, media and sport committee pre-appointment hearing with Lord...
MUMBAI: 21st Century Fox (21CF) notes the statement by the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport that she intends to refer the combination...
MUMBAI: The UK’s communications regulator Ofcom recently registered a complaint against “Joanna Lumley’s India” to be ‘materially misleading’. It has been registered under the “Complaints assessed,...
MUMBAI: The UK has become a nation of binge-viewers, Ofcom research has revealed, with eight in 10 adults now watching multiple episodes of their favourite shows...
MUMBAI: 21st Century Fox (21CF) has stated that it is going to continue to work constructively with the UK authorities as it goes ahead with the...
MUMBAI: United Kingdom broadcast regulator Ofcom, on 20 June, submitted a public interest report to the Government on the proposed acquisition of Sky by 21st Century...
MUMBAI: United Kingdom broadcast regulator Ofcom has studied several episodes of Times Now’s nightly show ‘The Newshour’ from last summer, which was broadcast during the rising...
NEW DELHI: A global war on content piracy, including in India, just got a leg up. For the first time, global tech giants Google and Microsoft...
NEW DELHI: Even as Prasar Bharati continues to struggle with the Sam Pitroda report which was largely a reiteration of earlier reports, the British Broadcasting Corporation...
NEW DELHI: Even as Prasar Bharati continues to struggle with the Sam Pitroda report which was largely a reiteration of earlier reports, the British Broadcasting Corporation...
MUMBAI: A new approach to tackling pirate radio has eradicated the problem in one London borough, and could save up to ?1 million for Londoners by being...
MUMBAI: UK communications regulator Ofcom will be releasing valuable new airwaves by holding a high-capcity spectrum auction that could be used to meet the growing demand for mobile...
MUMBAI: The regulation of video-on-demand (VOD) programme services is being brought fully within Ofcom to sit alongside its regulation of broadcast content. The move follows...
MUMBAI: Of all the pay TV providers in the UK, Sky is the only company to generate fewer complaints than the industry average (0.01 per 1,000...
MUMBAI: Ofcom has outlined the challenges facing the UK in ensuring that consumers and businesses receive high-quality digital communications services over the next decade and beyond....
MUMBAI: Ofcom plans to release valuable new airwaves that will improve 4G coverage and be used to meet the growing demand for mobile broadband services in...
MUMBAI: Close to 44 per cent (over four in ten) adults in the UK had used an internet connected TV – most via set-top boxes such...
MUMBAI: Ofcom has made changes that will make the cost of entering phone-ins, competitions and votes on TV and radio programmes simpler to understand. In...
NEW DELHI: British communications regulator Ofcom will be conducting an overarching review of the nation’s digital communications markets to ensure that communications providers and services continue...
NEW DELHI: Even as the dispute about Defence releasing spectrum continues in India, mobile broadband services in Britain will get a boost with British telecom regulator...
MUMBAI: The Communication Market 2014 report of Ofcom, an independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, highlights that TV industry generated ?12.9 billion...
MUMBAI: UK media watchdog Ofcom has invited applications from broadcasters for a fifth HD channel on Digital Terrestrial TV. This decision will mean that a new HD...
MUMBAI: UK media watchdog Ofcom has announced that after three rounds of consultation, it has made three decisions: Sky Sports 1 and 2 to be offered...
MUMBAI: The second amicus curiae Aman Ahluwalia continued his arguments today in the TDSAT-ad cap hearing. After giving the legal perspective yesterday, today he focused on...
MUMBAI: A total of 25.1 million households in the United Kingdom were receiving digital TV across all platforms in the fourth quarter in 2012, marking an...
MUMBAI: UK media regulatory watchdog Ofcom has rejected an appeal by Greystone Media in relation to a decision by the Authority for Television On Demand (ATVOD)...
MUMBAI: Global communications sector revenues, the total of TV, radio, telecom and post sectors, grew in 2011 by 3.7 per cent to touch ?1,322 billion, according...
MUMBAI: There will be no changes in the ownership rules affecting UK’s principal independent broadcaster ITV, UK broadcast sector regulator Ofcom said. According to the prevalent...
MUMBAI: Nearly half of all internet users in the UK are unsure whether the content they are accessing online is legal, UK media watchdog Ofcom‘s research...
MUMBAI: “If the BBC is weak, or lacking in confidence, or isn‘t sure about its editorial judgments and methods, then it runs the risk of being...
MUMBAI: UK media watchdog Ofcom has launched a review into the UK’s TV advertising trading market. The review will establish whether the way TV advertising is...
MUMBAI: The BBC Trust has started its public value test (PVT) of UK pubcaster the BBC’s local video proposal. The Trust has published BBC management’s application...
MUMBAI: The BBC Trust’s Public Value and Fair Trading Committee has decided to apply a public value test (PVT) to UK pubcaster the BBC’s local video...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC will launch a debate with the public and the creative communities to garner views on public service broadcasting, ahead of its...
MUMBAI: Helen Normoyle, currently Ofcom’s director of media literacy and convergent media and previously its director of market research, is joining the BBC as head of...
NEW DELHI: Upset over News Broadcasters Association’s (NBA) silence on the Content Code almost a month after sending a letter, the Information and Broadcasting ministry (I&B)...
NEW DELHI: A clear chapter on news content code based on Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, will be put...
MUMBAI: The BBC Trust in the UK decided to apply a Public Value Test (PVT) to the BBC Executive’s proposal for a permanent high definition (HD)...
MUMBAI: With the exploding children’s media landscape in UK, Britain’s content regulator Ofcom has announced a project to review the future of children’s programming with specific...
MUMBAI: BBC Trust has given the green signal to BBC management to provide broadband audio and video services-iPlayer. They have, however, incorporated changes made by the...
MUMBAI: UK media watchdog Ofcom has launched its planned consultation to consider the option of an online public service publisher (PSP). If given the go ahead,...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC’s plans to offer all its TV and radio shows on-demand via the internet and cable TV have been criticised by the...
MUMBAI: UK’s regulator Ofcom has slapped a hefty £ 100,000 fine on Gamecast UK Limited for the breaching of broadcasting guidelines by its service You TV2....
MUMBAI: UK media regulatory body Ofcom has published its International Communications Market Report. The report analyses trends in the global television, radio, telecommunications and wireless communications...
MUMBAI: UK media scion James Murdoch at a conference held by Ofcom attacked the UK regulatory body. He argued that there should be more deregulation. His...
MUMBAI: People are starting to watch less TV as the online video boom grows, suggests a BBC News survey. Around 43 per cent of UK people...
MUMBAI: UK regulator Ofcom is amending its Broadcasting Code to allow the sponsorship of commercial television channels and radio stations, subject to specific safeguards intended to...
MUMBAI: Realistic funding through a new, long term licence fee settlement is essential if the BBC is to fulfil the Government’s ambitious goal for digital switchover...
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