17-10-2011, 22:13
An open letter to channel reps
Do you find Ofcom rules restrictive? Could you deliver a better audience experience if only the rules were relaxed? For years now there seems to have been a zero tolerance policy where the slightest transgression results in a full blown investigation, management time is soaked up, 6-9 months of uncertainty, playing safe and lost audience. Most complaints, no matter how trivial, are upheld. Too often channels are fined. This isn’t true of any other program type. Hundreds of people have signed the e-Gov petition for fair treatment for adult channels. Hundreds. Does your channel support the petition? Can you help publicise it?
Freedom for adults to make informed viewing choices after 9pm
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/13222
It doesn’t ask anything outrageous. Just that adult content is treated more or less the same as other cert 18 content like action films and strong humour with some concessions for the easily offended.
Allow encrypted channels to show cert 18 content from 9pm. Encrypted film channels can show cert 18 from 9pm so that’s fair.
Allow free to air adult channels to show cert 18 strength content from 10pm – right now that isn’t allowed even at midnight. Sexual language must be moderated, oil is banned, so is girl-girl and even gestures. But people can see non-stop killing in Rambo 3, let alone torture porn like Hostel and Saw on public service channels from 10pm. Fair? No.
Allow any channel to show adult content after midnight. ITV goes over to teleshopping, other channels flip over to psychics or poker, so why can’t other channels retransmit adult content?
Allow encrypted adult channels to show R18 content after midnight. Encryption provides adequate age verification. Channels used to show much more explicit content than today and complaints were almost non-existent.
The serious and widespread offence that Ofcom frequently refers to simply does not exist. Complaints are almost non existent. Anyone offended by gestures or use of oil is equally likely to be offended by topless babes. Far more offence is caused by X-Factor and Eastenders.
What do you say? Can you help publicise the petition? http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/13222
Do you find Ofcom rules restrictive? Could you deliver a better audience experience if only the rules were relaxed? For years now there seems to have been a zero tolerance policy where the slightest transgression results in a full blown investigation, management time is soaked up, 6-9 months of uncertainty, playing safe and lost audience. Most complaints, no matter how trivial, are upheld. Too often channels are fined. This isn’t true of any other program type. Hundreds of people have signed the e-Gov petition for fair treatment for adult channels. Hundreds. Does your channel support the petition? Can you help publicise it?
Freedom for adults to make informed viewing choices after 9pm
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/13222
It doesn’t ask anything outrageous. Just that adult content is treated more or less the same as other cert 18 content like action films and strong humour with some concessions for the easily offended.
Allow encrypted channels to show cert 18 content from 9pm. Encrypted film channels can show cert 18 from 9pm so that’s fair.
Allow free to air adult channels to show cert 18 strength content from 10pm – right now that isn’t allowed even at midnight. Sexual language must be moderated, oil is banned, so is girl-girl and even gestures. But people can see non-stop killing in Rambo 3, let alone torture porn like Hostel and Saw on public service channels from 10pm. Fair? No.
Allow any channel to show adult content after midnight. ITV goes over to teleshopping, other channels flip over to psychics or poker, so why can’t other channels retransmit adult content?
Allow encrypted adult channels to show R18 content after midnight. Encryption provides adequate age verification. Channels used to show much more explicit content than today and complaints were almost non-existent.
The serious and widespread offence that Ofcom frequently refers to simply does not exist. Complaints are almost non existent. Anyone offended by gestures or use of oil is equally likely to be offended by topless babes. Far more offence is caused by X-Factor and Eastenders.
What do you say? Can you help publicise the petition? http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/13222