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Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has called for advertising to be scrapped on the country's public TV stations. He wants to create an equivalent of the BBC.
PARIS - French public television will have all advertising removed and commercial television networks could see their ad revenue taxed, according to plans unveiled by President Nicolas Sarkozy this week.
Ofcom's Digital Television Progress Report for January to March this year has revealed that 80.5 per cent of UK households or 20.4 million homes now have digital television, up from 77.2 per cent in the previous quarter.
LONDON - Media regulator Ofcom has introduced changes to the regulation of quiz shows, insisting that the correct answer to any quiz question set during programmes should be 'reasonable' and 'certain'.
How can it be right that a company such as BP is allowed to use TV to convince politicians and other opinion-formers that it cares about the environment, while a charity is denied space on the same medium to question such claims? The answer is self-evident and goes to show how unfair the rules about...
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned Jamster, the company behind The Crazy Frog, from showing its ads before 9pm.
LONDON - Homer Simpson's love for doughnuts and beer and 'Big Brother' contestants' penchant for fry-ups and biscuits are fuelling children's unhealthy eating habits, a report claims, with 69% failing to eat five portions of fresh fruit or vegetables a day.
LONDON - Free-running, the death-defying sport that was first brought to the nation's attention through a series of BBC idents, has claimed its first UK fatality.
LONDON - Romanians are being warned not to come to the UK as illegal immigrants in a series of ads appearing on primetime television in the East European country.
LONDON - The growth of digital television in the UK continues unabated according to new research from TV regulator Ofcom, with close to two-thirds of the country now on digital.
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