1. This presentation explains the role of Ofcom,
how they work and their restrictions.
Alexa Ranussi
13 Claudine

2. Ofcom is the government
approved regulatory authority
for the broadcasting
and telecommunications indus
tries in the United Kingdom.
Formation 29 December 2003
Type Statutory corporation
Legal status Created by Office of Communications Act 2002
Purpose/focus Regulator and competition authority for
broadcasting, telecommunications and radio communications
spectrum
Headquarters Riverside House, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, London SE1 9HA
Location London, Belfast, Cardiff, Caterham, Glasgow, Newton-le-Willows
Region served United Kingdom
Official languages English, Welsh

3. What they do What they do not do
Our main legal duties are to ensure: We are not responsible for regulating:
the UK has a wide range of electronic disputes between you and your telecoms
communications services, including high- provider;
speed services such as broadband;
a wide range of high-quality television and complaints about accuracy in BBC
radio programmes programmes;
television and radio services are provided by a premium-rate services, including mobile-
range of different organisations; phone text services and ringtones; the
content of television and radio adverts;
people who watch television and listen to the the BBC TV licence fee; or newspapers and
radio are protected from harmful or offensive magazines
material;
people are protected from being treated
unfairly in television and radio programmes,
and from having their privacy invaded;

4. Here are the major companies and organisations that
OFCOM supports going across different platforms : • ITN
-Newspaper • ITV
-Magazine Aegis Group •Johnston Press
-Radio • Archant • Mecom Group
-Cinema • BBC (BBC Worldwide • News International
• Bloomsbury Publishing • Newsquest
-Television
• British Sky Broadcasting • Northern & Shell
• BT Group • Pearson (Penguin
• Channel 4 Group
• Chime Communications • Pearson Education)
• Chrysalis Group • Press Holdings
•Daily Mail and General • Reed Elsevier
Trust • Reuters
• Economist Group •STV Group
• EMAP • Syco
• EMI Group • TalkTalk
• Endemol UK • Trinity Mirror
• Global Radio • UBM
• Guardian Media Group • UTV Media
• Haymarket Group • Virgin Media
• Informa • WPP
• IPC Media • Yell Group

5. Responsibilities
Ofcom's responsibilities are
wide-ranging, covering all
types of industries and
processes. It has a statutory
duty to the interests of citizens
and consumers by promoting
competition, and protecting
consumers from what might be RELATIONSHIPS WITH STAKEHOLDERS
considers harmful or offensive Ofcom’s role as a regulator requires us
material. to engage with a wide range of
stakeholders, including companies and
industry bodies in the sectors we
regulate, consumers and consumer
groups, the UK Government and
devolved administrations, co-regulators
and other regulators. We also engage
with various international organisations
and regulatory bodies.

6. Programes complaints
As the regulatory body for media broadcasts, part of Ofcom's duties are to
examine specific complaints by viewers or listeners about programmes broadcast
on channels that it has licensed. It does not oversee unlicensed channels
broadcast to UK viewers. When Ofcom receives a complaint, it asks the
broadcaster for a copy of the programme, it then examines the programme
content to see if it is in breach of the broadcasting code. Ofcom requests
response from the broadcaster to the complaint. On the basis of this response,
Ofcom will mark the complaint as either "upheld" or "not upheld", or
alternatively simply "resolved".

7. We can see that the
website is very
informative although it
doesn’t state properly
what we can show for
each age: for example
Discrimination scenes
cant be shown to a 15
years old because it my
influences them to do the
same.