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The Independent Television Commission issued on 20 February 1996 a revision of its rule relating to the advertising of dietary supplements. The rule, which takes immediate effect, allows a broader range of people who may benefit from vitamin and mineral supplements to be identified within commercials. The previous version of the rule allowed only restrained advertisements for vitamins and minerals related to the dietary requirements of growing children, pregnant or lactating woman and elderly people. The Department of Health now recognises that a much wider range of specific groups of people may...

On 14 December 1995, the British Government introduced a Bill to amend the Broadcasting Act of 1990. The 116 pages of the Bill make new provision about the broadcasting in digital form of television and sound programme services and for the broadcasting in that form on television or radio frequencies of other services. The Bill also provides for the establishment and functions of a Broadcasting Standards Commission and for the dissolution of the Broadcasting Standards Council. Furthermore, it makes provision for the transfer to other persons of property, rights and liabilities of the BBC relating...

One of the unsuccessful appliants for a Channel 5 licence has failed in its attempt to gain judicial review of the decision of the Independent Television Commission awarding the licence to a competitor. Although the application has been granted leave to procede to a full hearing, at that hearing the High Court rejected the argument of the Virgin Group that the successful applicant, Channel 5 Broadcasting, had been allowed to enhance its bid after other bids had been submitted. The Court considered that it was not necessary for the applicant to have secured all funding required by the date of the...

The attitudes of UK viewers towards nudity in television advertising are explored in a comprehensive research report, published on 2 November 1995 by the Independent Television Commission. The study reveals a range of opinion within the TV audience on what does or does not consitute acceptable levels of nudity in advertising. Yet the researchers found no evidence to support the view that current standards were widely regarded as too liberal, even for those sections of the audience with the strongest reservations in this area. The study confirms that viewers' acceptance of material cannot be based...

The Independent Television Commission, which regulates UK private commercial television, has issued a performance review of Independent Television News (ITN), the provider of news for the Channel 3 network. The review concludes that ITN has provided a well-resourced, authorative and attractive news service, meeting the requirements of the Broadcasting Act 1990, that news programmes should be of high quality. It rejected complaints from some Channel 3 companies that too high a proportion of output was foreign news, that there was bias towards news from London and the South-East of the UK, or that...