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Finally the long awaited and much debated replacement for the EU “TV Without Frontiers” Directive has been signed off. For the many of us who had tuned out long ago,…

A recent ECJ judgment dealt with an Austrian case in which local TV regulators argued that encouraging viewers to call in to a show using premium rate lines amounted to…

Both broadcasters received significant fines and a rap on the knuckles for the way in which competitions on their channels were conducted. Veena Srinivasan reports.   Who: Channel 5,  BBC and…

Euro jargon watchers rejoiced when the European Commission held a “trilogue” with the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers and took another step closer to updating EU audio visual…

The ‘Audio Visual Media Services Directive’ saga goes on. Starting out as a harmless update to the creaking ‘TV Without Frontiers Directive’ the measure grew to regulate almost all that…

After much lobbying by Ofcom and others, Euro ministers have engineered revisions to the much-criticised draft Audio Visual Media Services Directive. Product placement and, thanks to Euro MPs, food ads…

Channel 4 recently announced that for the time being it would no longer carry ads on its broadband TV simulcast service. The decision followed concerns voiced by agency body the…

Now well into their sixth year in force, the distance sales regulations are still throwing up unexpected issues. In this case it was whether the date of payment or the…

Just when you thought it was never going to see the light of day, the body that pre-vets all UK TV advertising has published its new Guidance on the interpretation…