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On 24 May 2013 Ofcom ordered a review of the amount of alcohol advertising on television, after it emerged that children are increasingly watching reality programmes, such as: Britain’s Got Talent, X-Factor, and I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, which can show such advertisements under current rules. The existing guidelines ban adverts from being aired during shows that have a particular appeal to the under 18s. But research carried out for the broadcasting regulator reveals that children saw an average 3.2 alcohol adverts per week in 2011 - an increase of 18% on 2007 when they saw 2.7 per week. The...

On 3 June 2013, the free-to-air satellite and cable broadcaster CHSTV, which provides general news and entertainment services aimed at the Bangladeshi community in the UK, was held by Ofcom to be in breach of Rule 5.1 of the Broadcasting Code, which requires due impartiality in broadcast news. The item in question was broadcast on 12 February 2013 and concerned disturbances surrounding the ‘Shahbag’ protests, which were organised by the Bangladeshi opposition party Jamaat, in protest against various actions of the International Criminal Court (ICT) in Bangladesh, particularly the decision to sentence...

On 26 June 2013, Ofcom (UK’s audiovisual regulatory body) decided that the Everton TV section of Everton Football Club’s website was not an on demand programme service (ODPS). Everton had appealed ATVOD’s decision to Ofcom, after ATVOD (UK’s VoD co-regulatory body) had determined on 11 April 2012 that the Everton TV section constituted an ODPS. When determining whether a particular website or section of a website is an ODPS, two core criteria had to be fulfilled pursuant to section 368A of the Communications Act, namely: - The principal purpose is to provide audiovisual material. - Whether the...

On 21 March 2013, the UK broadcasting regulator Ofcom ruled that independent candidates will not get the automatic right to their own party election broadcasts, despite the majority of political parties and broadcasters responding to the consultation believing that they should. But Ofcom will support the Electoral Commission to raise this issue with the British Government in future, in the hopes that the law will be changed in future to widen the access to make such broadcasts. The regulator carried out its wide-ranging consultation over party political/referendum broadcasting, and election coverage...

On 8 May 2013, the UK Advertising Standards Authority published an adjudication finding that a broadcast advertisement was not socially responsible. The UK Code of Broadcast Advertising (BCAP Code) contains an Article (1.2.), which states that ‘Advertisements must be prepared with a sense of responsibility to the audience and to society’. 29 complaints were received by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) regarding an advertisement for a so-called “pay day loan”. The advertisement, in the name of a company trading as ‘Cash Lady’ was fronted by singer Kerry Katona who had financial problems...