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Posts Tagged ‘Ofcom’

Product Placement May Now Be Restricted, But Still Breaks Television's Crucial Spell

Product Placement May Now Be Restricted, But Still Breaks Television’s Crucial Spell

After the black and white, the shades of grey: the government’s decision to allow product placement on UK television was modified yesterday to restrict “alcoholic…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | February 4, 2010 2:25PM | 1 Comment »


Phorm Starts Foaming At The Mouth Over Its Detractors

Phorm Starts Phoaming At The Mouth Over Its Detractors

Phorm, the targeted advertising company that’s the scourge of the privacy brigade, is actively fighting back against its detractors with a new website,

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | April 29, 2009 10:57AM | 3 Comments »


Ofcom Tells ITV It Only Needs To Bother With 4 Hours Of Local News A Week

Ofcom Tells ITV it Only Needs to Bother With 4 Hours of Local News a Week

We’ve been following the progress of the big broadcasting story of the year, namely what’s going to happen to Channel 4…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | January 21, 2009 4:49PM | No Comments »


TalkSport Get £20,000 Reminder Why Not To Employ Really Crass, Offensive People

TalkSport has been fined £20,000 today, thanks to rightwing nut-job James Whale (pictured in attire not befitting his age, left) telling everyone to go and…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | December 8, 2008 4:36PM | 6 Comments »



BBC’s Attempts To Make Local News Bearable Scuppered By Ofcom

Yesterday Philip Green voiced his frustration at the BBC being publicly funded and not having to deal with the blasted business of profit…

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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | November 21, 2008 1:37PM | 1 Comment »