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The members of the Independent Television Commission decided on 14 September this year that the satellite channel, MTV Europe, should be required to pay financial penalties totalling £ 60,000 for three breaches of the ITC's Programme and Advertising Codes. The penalties incurred upon MTV Europe were based on the breach of Section 1.5 (i) of the Programme Code which states that material unsuitable for children must not be broadcast at times when large numbers of children may be expected to be watching. The terms of the MTV Europe licence require that the ITC's Codes are observed. Under Sections...

The Broadcasting Act 1990 (s. 92(2)) prohibits advertising on commercial radio by an organisation whose objectives are 'wholly or mainly of a political nature'; this is also prohibited by the Radio Authority's Advertising Code. Amnesty International was refused permission to advertise by the Radio Authority and challenged this by judicial review, arguing that the prohibition should be narrowly construed in accordance with Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights; thus it should apply only to organisations seeking a specific change in government whilst the objectives of Amnesty are...

The UK Government has responded to the National Heritage Select Committee's Report on Privacy and Media Intrusion . The central policy recommendation is that the Government continues to believe that press self-regulation is the appropriate method of regulating relations between the media and the public. However, the Government recommends improvements in the effectiveness and independence of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) in the newspaper industry's Code of Practice. Specific recommendations include: - the PCC should pay compensation from a fund set up by the industry to those it judges...

The UK Government is drawing up the legislative framework for digital terrestrial broadcasting. Six frequency channels will be made available initially for television, each able to carry at least three television channels, possibly many more. They will need to be multiplexed into a single digital signal for each frequency channel. In addition, seven radio frequency channels will be made available, each with the capacity to offer at least six digital stereo programme services. One of these channels will be allocated to the BBC for national services, another for independent national radio, four for...

The UK telecommunications regulator has produced a consultation paper on the regulation of broadband switched mass-market services (and their substitutes) delivered by telecommunications systems. It suggests that the future form of such services is uncertain but the market is most likely to tend towards the development of broadband switched mass-market services. Although over-regulation should be avoided, potential investors need to be given an indication as to what the regulatory regime of the future is likely to look like. Successful policies from the regulation of the narrowband world can be...