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It’s not all bad news for Scotland’s defiant papers
Dumfries :: United Kingdom | about 16 hours ago
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Since the mid 19th-century, the titles have come to represent something quintessentially Scottish, an irreplaceable record of the peaks and troughs of ordinary community life — obituaries, prize-winning marrows, petty theft and council scandals. But the...
Tags: Scotland Office, local newspaper, local papers, Ofcom, advertising revenues, local journalism, United Kingdom, Dumfries, Newspaper, Northcliffe Media, Lerner Newspapers, Weekly newspaper, Free daily newspaper, Entertainment Culture, Journalism, Online newspaper
Where's kids' TV in our digital future?
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility Hopes of subsidy for Britain's once-thriving and still creative children's TV industry seem to have subsided Dominant force: Hannah Montana. Photograph: Disney Channel Colette Bowe, the chair of Ofcom , drew attention yesterday to one of the most glaring...
Tags: Disney Channel Colette Bowe, BBC Trust, CBBC, Ofcom, United Kingdom, London, CBeebies, Channel 4, Disney Channel, Hannah Montana, Television in the United Kingdom, ITV
Mandelson and Murdoch: it's war!
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility The Business Secretary's most strident attack yet Lord Mandelson has launched his most polemical attack yet on the Murdoch empire, warning explicitly of its plan to import "Fox-style news" to Britain. What's fascinating about Mandelson's latest intervention...
Tags: Rupert Murdoch, Peter Mandelson, News Corporation, declared war, mandelson declared, murdoch empire, United Kingdom, London, Business Finance, Politics, Ofcom, Entertainment Culture, S corporation, Corporate taxation in the United States, Finance, British Sky Broadcasting, Fox News Channel, Tax, The Sun, James Murdoch, UBS AG
Why MP stuck to microphone | Media Monkey
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility There was much head-scratching among those attending today's Commons culture, media and sport select committee inquiry into Ofcom's annual plan as to why MP Peter Luff spent so long talking about the riveting issue of radio microphones.
Tags: Ofcom, United Kingdom, London, Talkback, Sound technology, Sound recording, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Audio engineering, Microphones, Wireless microphone
X Factor attracts most complaints
London :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility X Factor attracts most Ofcom complaints of year The X Factor has prompted the most viewer complaints to media watchdog Ofcom so far in 2009, figures reveal. The talent search attracted 5,975 complaints, with 4,000 relating to Dannii Minogue's remarks...
Tags: Ofcom, United Kingdom, London, Ed Richards, British brands, British television, Satellite television, The X Factor, News Corporation, Dannii Minogue, British Sky Broadcasting, Business Finance, Television in the United Kingdom, Big Brother, Shilpa Shetty, James Murdoch, Celebrity Big Brother, Entertainment Culture
Logica set to close its final-salary pension scheme
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Logica said that it planned to close the defined-benefit scheme to new accrual from the second quarter of next year, offering the casualties the chance to join an inferior definedcontribution scheme. An existing defined-contribution scheme for another...
Tags: Ofcom, pensions deficit, pensions cost, Carphone Warehouse, BT Group PLC, telecoms regulator, regulator ofcom, bt pensions, wholesale charge, telephone lines, United Kingdom, London, Social Issues, Labor, Business Finance, BT Ireland, British Sky Broadcasting, Openreach, BT Group, British Telecom, The Carphone Warehouse, Retirement, Pension, Personal finance, Employment compensation, Financial services, Investment, British brands, Television in the United Kingdom, BT Retail, Defined benefit pension plan
Phone codes could all change again if number rationing fails
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Faced with an increasing scarcity of numbers, Ofcom raised the prospect of introducing so-called “overlay” codes — a second code that would operate alongside the existing code — across large parts of the country. Such a move would make the traditional...
Tags: Ofcom, United Kingdom, London
Mandelson sideswipes 'absurd' Meyer
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Lord Mandelson labels former PCC head Sir Christopher Meyer 'absurd' Lord Mandelson calls Christopher Meyer 'a slightly absurd individual', without naming him, in praise of successor Lord Mandelson. Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters Lord Mandelson...
Tags: Mandelson, Christopher Meyer, PCC, lord mandelson, absurd individual, local authorities, BBC, Ofcom, United Kingdom, London, Life peers, Politics, Peter Mandelson, Political scandals in the United Kingdom, Press Complaints Commission
Blue Peter stops Gordon Brown from banning under-14s from TV
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility It has survived a cocaine scandal, incontinent elephants and vandals in its world-famous garden, so perhaps the odds were always against Blue Peter being sunk by Gordon Brown. Yet that is exactly what the BBC feared would happen when they heard of Whitehall...
Tags: Gordon Brown, Blue Peter, CBBC, United Kingdom, London, Department for Children Schools and Families, BBC, Channel 4, Newsround, Television in the United Kingdom, Ofcom, Entertainment Culture, Watchdog
OFT: Google is good for British economy
London :: United Kingdom | 10 days ago
Credibility The Office of Fair Trading will not challenge Google's dominance Search engine giant is 'good for the British economy' OFT chief tells a culture, media and sport select committee The chief executive of the Office of Fair Trading said today that there...
Tags: John Fingleton, local authorities, Ed Richards, told mp, Ofcom, failing firms, United Kingdom, London, Google, Consumer protection, Office of Fair Trading
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