United Kingdom: : BBC World News breached Ofcom rules by allowing current affairs programmes to be sponsored

• Autores: Julian Wilkins
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 9, 2015, págs. 14-15
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • BBC World News (BBCWN) is a 24 hour international news and information channel owned by BBC Global News Limited (BBCGTV), a commercial subsidiary of the BBC, and funded through advertising and subscription. BBCGTV holds an Ofcom Licence. Ofcom investigated BBCWN for possible breaches of funding rules resulting from broadcasting documentaries without cost or at a nominal cost, as low as £1. Ofcom initially investigated 75 programmes broadcast on BBCWN, narrowing it to 14 programmes