01-10-2011, 00:55
Also Ofcom publishes its Broadcasting Code, Broadcasting Code Guidance and Program Related Guidance in clearly labelled logical places:
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadca...cast-code/
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadca...bguidance/
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadca...-guidance/
but for reasons known only to Ofcom they choose to put todays new "guidance and detailed findings" on the watershed in the Consumers section
http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/parents/
(actually you have to drill down to http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binarie...amming.pdf)
instead. This may be intended for program makers, though it is actually an expaned analysis and write up of the Media Tracker survey above. A quick look suggests a complete absence of any clear guidance to program makers.
Worsening standards: Far more people were concerned about repeats than sex (15% to 2%, page 21)
The top 4 things that made teens uncomfortable or offended regardig pre-watershed programing were:
Sexually explicit content (7% of all 768 teens surveyed)
Offensive language (4%)
Violence in general (4%)
Nakedness/naked body parts (2%)
(page 13)
BUT that is a measure of squirm factor, NOT what people think should be banned, or even a measure of what they have seen.
The top 4 categories of prewatershed show actually causing concern to teens were:
Film (7% of all 768 teens surveyed)
Soaps (6%)
Reality (5%)
Drama (4%)
(page 14)
So when teens are asked that ACTUALLY causes them concern, its films and Mums soaps.
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadca...cast-code/
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadca...bguidance/
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadca...-guidance/
but for reasons known only to Ofcom they choose to put todays new "guidance and detailed findings" on the watershed in the Consumers section
http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/parents/
(actually you have to drill down to http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binarie...amming.pdf)
instead. This may be intended for program makers, though it is actually an expaned analysis and write up of the Media Tracker survey above. A quick look suggests a complete absence of any clear guidance to program makers.
Worsening standards: Far more people were concerned about repeats than sex (15% to 2%, page 21)
The top 4 things that made teens uncomfortable or offended regardig pre-watershed programing were:
Sexually explicit content (7% of all 768 teens surveyed)
Offensive language (4%)
Violence in general (4%)
Nakedness/naked body parts (2%)
(page 13)
BUT that is a measure of squirm factor, NOT what people think should be banned, or even a measure of what they have seen.
The top 4 categories of prewatershed show actually causing concern to teens were:
Film (7% of all 768 teens surveyed)
Soaps (6%)
Reality (5%)
Drama (4%)
(page 14)
So when teens are asked that ACTUALLY causes them concern, its films and Mums soaps.