Lord Grade would bring considerable experience and knowledge of the media sector to the role of Ofcom Chair but may need to be supported with advice on social media and online safety to properly carry out the job, MPs have suggested. In a Report published following a pre-appointment hearing with the Government’s preferred candidate on […]

Ofcom has suspended Khalsa Television Limited’s licence to broadcast after an investigation found the KTV channel in breach of broadcasting rules. The KTV television channel broadcasts to the Sikh community in the UK. The media regulator’s investigation found that Prime Time, a 95-minute live discussion programme, included material likely to incite violence. The presenter of […]

More than a third of UK internet users are unaware that online content might be false or biased, according to research from media regulator Ofcom. Every minute sees 500 hours of content uploaded to YouTube, 5,000 videos viewed on TikTok and 695,000 stories shared on Instagram. Given the sheer volume of information at the touch […]

Lord Michael Grade will appear before the Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) Committee of the UK House of Commons on March 31st for pre-appointment scrutiny following the Government’s announcement that he is the preferred candidate for the post of Ofcom Chair. He has been announced as the DCMS’s candidate more than two years after […]

Michael Grade is the government’s preferred candidate for the Ofcom chair, the UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has announced. Lord Grade has had a long career in broadcasting, encompassing London Weekend Television, the BBC, ITV, as well as over nine years as Chief Executive of Channel Four Television. In May 2004 he was appointed Chairman […]

Broadcast regulator Ofcom has revoked news channel RT’s licence to broadcast in the UK, with immediate effect. It says it has done so on the basis that it does not consider RT’s licensee, ANO TV Novosti, fit and proper to hold a UK broadcast licence. The decision comes amid 29 ongoing investigations by Ofcom into […]

People suffering financial hardship should receive better support from phone and broadband providers under proposals published by comms regulator Ofcom. According to its recent research, around 1.1 million households (5 per cent) are struggling to afford their broadband. That rises to around one in 10 among the lowest-income households. With affordability problems only likely to […]

Supporting the growing use of cutting-edge satellite technology to offer innovative services for people and businesses, is at the heart of UK comms regulator Ofcom’s new proposed space spectrum strategy. The space sector is expanding rapidly, with the number of space launches increasing by almost 60 per cent between 2017 and 2021. Companies such as […]

Following correspondence from the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on the appointment of a new Chair for Ofcom, DCMS Committee Chair Julian Knight MP criticised the continuing delays to the process. “Another week, another new instalment of suspense in the ridiculous soap opera that is the race to […]

UK broadcast regulator Ofcom has opened a further 12 investigations into the due impartiality of programmes on the RT news channel. This takes the total number of RT programmes under investigation to 27. “We are very concerned by the volume of programmes on RT that are raising potential issues under the Broadcasting Code, and as […]