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The Ofcom Content Sanctions Committee recently fined Channel 4 GBP 5.000 and ordered it to broadcast Ofcom's findings in a form and at a time to be determined by Ofcom. According to the Communications Act 2003, fines may not exceed 5% of “qualifying revenue” and the money is forwarded to the Treasury. The specific issue was “giving undue prominence to a commercial product” in breach of 8.4 (former ITC Programme Code) - now Section 10.4 of the Broadcast Code. During May 2004, a videotape item and discussion was broadcast on “the Richard and Judy Show” concerning the dangers of excessive caffeine...

Ofcom licencees have to be concerned with two types of advertising rules: - amount, scheduling and presentation rules and - content rules As regards the amount, scheduling and presentation rules, according to Section 322 of the Communications Act 2003, Ofcom has the power to give directions to any of its licencees on the following matters: (a) the maximum amount of time to be given to advertisements in any hour or other period; (b) the minimum interval which must elapse between any two periods given over to advertisements; (c) the number of such periods to be allowed in any programme or in any...

A Senate report examines the impact of the deregulation brought about as a result of the Decree of 7 October 2003 (see IRIS 2003-8: 9 and IRIS 2004-2: 12) concerning television advertising for sectors that were previously prohibited (press, publishing, distribution). Whereas the press is now totally free to advertise, this is not the case for either publishing, which may only advertise on theme channels, or distribution, which is limited from 1 January 2004 to 1 January 2007 to local channels and to cable and satellite channels. The Government deliberately allowed the distribution sector to advertise...

The Czech Republic's Parliament has approved a new Act on television and radio licence fees, which will result in their being increased. In return, Czech public-service television will have to give up almost all its revenue from advertising. The monthly television licence fee is currently CZK 75 (EUR 2.50). It is to rise initially to CZK 100, then from 1 January 2007 to CZK 120, and from 1 January 2008 to CZK 135. A radio licence currently costs CZK 37 per month and this will increase to CZK 45. Advertising on Czech radio is already subject to restrictions. Advertising on public-service television...

On 6 May 2005, the Turkish broadcasting regulator (RTÜK) announced that it planned to remove four channels showing erotic content from the list of channels transmitted by the satellite company Digitürk. The channels concerned - Adult Channel, Exotica TV, Playboy TV and Rouge TV - are all broadcast from abroad and have about 12,000 subscribers in Turkey. They will no longer be available in Turkey because the regulator claims they infringe "the moral values of the nation". Digitürk has already said it will appeal against the ban. The RTÜK also issued warnings to eight private broadcasters for showing...