Wednesday, October 29, 2008

About Ofcom
It is useful for media studies students
Ofcom (Office of Communications)  is the organisation which regulates the UK’s broadcasting, telecommunications and wireless communications sectors.  Ofcom also sets and enforces rules on fair competition between companies in these industries.
Ofcom's main legal duties, as set out in the UK Communications Act 2003, are to ensure:
• the UK has a wide range of electronic communications services, including high-speed information services
• a wide range of high-quality television and radio programmes are provided, appealing to a range of tastes and interests;
• television and radio services are provided by a range of different organisations;
• people who watch television and listen to the radio are protected from harmful or offensive material;
• people are protected from being treated unfairly in television and radio programmes, and from having their privacy invaded; and
• the radio spectrum (the airwaves used by everyone from taxi firms and boat owners, to mobile-phone companies and broadcasters) is used in the most effective way.
I suggest one of the students of  uk media course accept this topic as the his or her term project.

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