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The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is required by the Broadcasting Act 1996 (Part IV, Section 104) to draw up a code giving guidance on certain matters relating to the televising of sports, and other events of national interest, which have been listed by the Secretary of State. This code was published at the beginning of April 1997 after consultation with all interested parties. An event may be listed because it is of "national" interest within England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Island. This allows events to be shown only in those parts of the UK in which there is likely to be the most...

The House of Lords has ruled, in the case of Hunter and Others v Canary Wharf Ltd & Hunter and Others v London Docklands Development, that `A landowner was, generally, entitled to build on his land as he wished and, accordingly, would not be liable in nuisance because a large building [in this case Canary Wharf] he had erected had interfered with television reception.' An important point here was the fact that the action was brought by persons not having any proprietary interest in the land. The building caused interference in signals transmitted from the Crystal Palace transmitter (although a...

The Committee of National Heritage of the House of Commons, chaired by Gerald Kaufman, has recently published its report on the BBC and the Future of Broadcasting, Since its previous report on the BBC, three years ago, changes in electronic communication have taken and are taking place. In the light of these transformations the Committee examined the prospects of the BBC, surveyed both what the broadcasters are doing and how the framework of regulation is changing to accommodate. One of the recommendations of the report is dealing with the Board of Governors, the watchdogs of the BBC's integrity...

In IRIS 1996-7: 10 we reported that in March 1996, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) issued a further Consultative Document on the protection of programme formats. In a possible amendment of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 annexed to the Consultative Document, it was proposed to add some paragraphs to Section 17 (infringement of copyright by copying). As a result copyright on a copyright protected work would be infringed when the underlying format of the work would be copied in a new radio or television programme. In November 1996 the DTI indicated to the interested parties...

The UK National Heritage Secretary (the minister responsible for broadcasting matters) announced on March 5 that she is considering making an order to ban the satellite TV channel `Satisfaction Club'. She had received notification from the Independent Television Commission that it was a pornographic service which the Commission considered unacceptable, and in accordance with the EC Broadcasting Directive has notified the broadcaster, the Italian authorities and the European Commission that the service was considered to have manifestly, seriously and gravely infringed the Directive's provisions...