Ofcom

• Latest news about Ofcom

• Whichever way the Leveson vote goes, it's poison

  There has been too much hate, and it has undermined the whole point of the exercise whichever way Monday's votes go. Tabloid journalists hate upmarket journalists, and both are variously hated in turn by struggling editors in our regional press. Broadcasters hate print journalists; and vice versa. Ed and Nick hate David, and vice versa.

  Peter Preston @ MediaGuardian - Newspapers & Magazines - on 17/3/13

• Ofcom sets April deadline for next phase of local TV licences

  Following award of 19 local licences in first phase, regulator calls for expressions of interest for 30 other towns and cities.

  Ben Dowell @ MediaGuardian - Television - on 13/3/13

• Ofcom launches next phase of local TV for 30 areas

  Potential operators of new local TV channels for 30 locations around the UK are being invited to submit expressions of interest. Ofcom is launching the. . .

  Helen Lambourne @ Hold the Front Page - on 13/3/13

• In Israel - the FM+ Conference on receiving the future

  Israel isn't a place I'd been to before: and after thirty minutes of interrogation in Heathrow Airport by the kindly folk of El Al security (actually, people from the Israeli army wearing El Al uniforms, I discover later), it was a place I was doubtful I'd ever see. Luckily, their suspicion eventually faded, and I was able to jump on a five hour flight in a decidedly second-hand Boeing 777 (complete with the Singapore Airlines 'silver kris' bird etched onto a cup-holder in the loo) to Tel Aviv, to talk at the FM+ Conference run by the IDC.

  James Cridland's Blog - on 6/3/13

• YourTV wins local television licence for Blackpool and Preston

  Ofcom decision marks the end of the first phase of a project which has awarded licences in 19 localities.

  Ben Dowell @ MediaGuardian - Television - on 1/3/13

• RadioTalk: Round Table with Claire Enders, Stewart Purvis & Nik Goodman

  It’s a spicy debate in this week’s RadioTalk as the panel discuss the Competition Commission’s initial findings on Global Radio’s acquisition of GMG Radio, Helen Boaden’s return to BBC Radio and 15. 1m listeners for Radio 2. Views come from Claire Enders, CEO of Enders Analysis, Stewart Purvis, former CEO of ITN and a regulator at OFCOM, and Nik Goodman, the creative director for Bounce, the creative production company and a former PD of Capital Radio.

  Nella @ Radio Academy - on 21/2/13

• 4G auction: what was it all for?

  After five years and 50 rounds of bidding, fourth generation mobile wireless will change the way we use our phones.

  Charles Arthur @ MediaGuardian - Mobile - on 20/2/13

• 4G auction: Reasons behind £1bn revenue blackhole

  Ofcom's 4G airwave auction raised £2. 3bn for the Treasury, significantly less than the £3. 5 billion than had been predicted by Chancellor. Telegraph's Consumer Technology Editor Matt Warman explains where the Government forecasts went wrong.

  Telegraph.co.uk - Media and Telecoms news - on 20/2/13

• Five winners as 4G auction raises £2.3bn

  Telecoms regulator Ofcom said its auction of 4G airwaves had raised £2. 34bn, providing a smaller-than-expected windfall for the Government.

  Telegraph.co.uk - Media and Telecoms news - on 20/2/13

• Psychic TV channel faces Ofcom fine over Dowler and Jackson claims

  Psychic Today broadcast interviews with Jenna and Crystal who talked about pop star and murdered schoolgirl.

  John Plunkett @ MediaGuardian - Television - on 18/2/13

• Related Topics

© 2010 BriefingMedia Ltd. All rights reserved. Powered by idio Platform

View full site.