Press TV Loses license to broadcast in UK

[funk de fino]

As per the thread title. Just seen it on BBC website. George be looking for more TV celebrity shows!!

 

[Soapy Sam]

What's press tv?

 

[Lisa Simpson]

Links are nice

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16652356

Iranian news network Press TV has had its licence revoked by the media regulator Ofcom and will no longer be allowed to broadcast in the UK.

 

[The Dark Lord]

What's press tv?

Iran's foreign propaganda wing.

 

[DC]

As per the thread title. Just seen it on BBC website. George be looking for more TV celebrity shows!!

So the queen is closing down PressTV? Silence a critical TV station? what happened to freedom of the press?

 

[welshdean]

So the queen is closing down PressTV? Silence a critical TV station? what happened to freedom of the press?

No matter, her son will resurrect it when he gets the 'big seat'.
Bloody royals.

 

[Sam.I.Am]

Whatever will JihadJane do now for her news propaganda updates?

 

[Darth Rotor]

What was their primary foul that led to this action?

Seems a bit extreme, unless there's a pattern of malfeasance.

 

[Carnivore]

What was their primary foul that led to this action?

Seems a bit extreme, unless there's a pattern of malfeasance.

They refused to abide by UK law on editorial oversight and failed to even respond to the regulatory agency when it contacted them with possible sloutions. Should have been an easy fix, Tehran could have retained editorial control legally. Turns out that flat out ignoring your legal problems doesn't make them go away. It also didn't help that Press TV refused to pay the fine they incurred for broadcasing an interview with a kidnapped Newsweek journalist who was forced to confess that Western jounalists were spies instigating illegal protests. Press TV's licensing problems are totally self inflicted.

From the Grauniad:

Press TV, the Iranian state broadcaster's English-language outlet, has been forced off the air in the UK after Ofcom revoked its licence for breaching the Communications Act.

Ofcom found that Press TV's practice of running its editorial oversight from Tehran, Iran's capital, is in breach of broadcasting licence rules in the UK.

"Ofcom has decided to revoke the licence held by Press TV Limited with immediate effect," the media regulator said in a statement.

Ofcom wrote a letter to Press TV in November highlighting the issue and offered a choice of two remedies.

The first was to switch editorial control for Press TV's programming to the UK, the second to transfer the broadcasting licence to Iran.

"Broadcasting rules require that a licence is held by the person who is in general control of the TV service: that is, the person that chooses the programmes to be shown in the service and organises the programme schedule," Ofcom said.

"Ofcom gave Press TV the opportunity to apply to have its operations in Tehran correctly licensed by Ofcom and Ofcom offered to assist it to do so," said the regulator.

Ofcom said Press TV failed to respond to or implement either of these two options.

 

[Virus]

Ha. That puts George Galloway and other useful idiots out of the job.

 

[trustbutverify]

God no. Please, let me wake up from this nightmare.

 

[funk de fino]

God no. Please, let me wake up from this nightmare.

I am sure your fellow GG fan club members can raise some funds for him in these dark times.

 

[Beerina]

Links are nice

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16652356

Wait, you have to get permission of the government to broadcast?

I have no love of Iran, but that is precisely because they do BS like this:

"Ofcom contradictions are nothing new for Press TV. The British government's tool to control the media has, on several occasions, changed its decisions regarding Press TV in its two-year campaign against the alternative news channel."

Do not forget, people, "what's wrong with Iran".

 

[pchams]

It's good to know that the US would never have an agency to oversee broadcasting regulations.

 

[DC]

Wait, you have to get permission of the government to broadcast?

I have no love of Iran, but that is precisely because they do BS like this:




Do not forget, people, "what's wrong with Iran".

But there is nothing wrong with it when we do it

 

[catsmate]

Oh dear. How unfortunate. Never mind.

 

[Information Analyst]

So the queen is closing down PressTV? Silence a critical TV station? what happened to freedom of the press?

Where did it say the Queen has anything at all to do with it?

 

[DC]

Where did it say the Queen has anything at all to do with it?

that was directed at Funk, he knows perfectly well what i mean

 

[Information Analyst]

Wait, you have to get permission of the government to broadcast?

All UK broadcasters are subject to the same rules. Even Fox News got censured for biased and mis-leading reporting a few years back.

 

[WildCat]

It's good to know that the US would never have an agency to oversee broadcasting regulations.

Did PressTV broadcast over the air in the UK? If not, there's no US equivalent to that.