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Ofcom is the independent regulator for the communications industries in the United Kingdom, regulating broadcasting (TV, radio, and on-demand), telecommunications (phones, broadband, and postal services), radio spectrum, and, under the Online Safety Act, online services.www.ofcom.org.uk

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Oct 29, 2026

MaryhanHOST
8:50
The content has learned how to find them first.
MaryhanHOST
8:54
And Ofcom's 2026 figures found that 73% of children aged 11 to 17... had encountered potentially harmful content in the past month.
MaryhanHOST
9:05
Over a third simply by scrolling.
MaryhanHOST
9:08
And school leaders surveyed by University College London described the tropes moving off screens and into the school playgrounds.
Alice BrineHOST
40:34
kicked him out as soon as they found out they couldn't platform him.
Alice BrineHOST
40:36
So Omar from Big Brother got a formal warning in the diary room after receiving over 7,000 Ofcom complaints.
Alice BrineHOST
40:44
Welcome back, Beth.
Alice BrineHOST
40:45
I know, but the way it was delivered, I think was really, really weird because basically what has happened is there's clearly signs of coercive control manipulation and like emotionally abusive behavior coming from him.
Jamie EastHOST
42:25
If you're going to bollock someone, bollock them.
Alice BrineHOST
42:28
Bollock them properly.
Alice BrineHOST
42:28
I found the whole thing really weird, but it was 7,138 Ofcom complaints, which compared to Joey Essex, Joey Essex and Sean Stone on Love Island only got 1,800.
Alice BrineHOST
42:38
So it is a shit ton.
Krishnan Guru-MurthyGUEST
9:40
That viewers can understand and know and they know which brands they trust online.
Krishnan Guru-MurthyGUEST
9:46
And they know that because we voluntarily comply all our online content with Ofcom's code.
Lewis GoodallGUEST
9:53
In which case, if you're so confident about it, Chris, why? I mean, you don't work for the BBC, but why is the director general of this organisation's answer to all of this? to basically ask for an algorithmic attention subsidy for his organisation's journalism, if he's so confident about the sort of journalism that it is and it getting ivory.
Lewis GoodallGUEST
10:08
Well, I
Lewis GoodallGUEST
12:47
So Lewis, before you give us
Ros AtkinsHOST
12:48
an example though, I want you to unpack that so people listening know exactly what you're meaning.
Ros AtkinsHOST
12:52
So you mean the way that Ofcom currently regulates broadcast news needs to evolve.
Ros AtkinsHOST
12:56
It's a bit too strict for him.
Scroobius PipHOST
14:17
And we did a whole campaign with Stammer a few years back, the British stammering organisation, about the lack of representation.
Scroobius PipHOST
14:24
And like Ofcom looked at it all and said, yeah, there's a huge, it's being left behind in the representation of disability, of gender, of all these different things.
Scroobius PipHOST
14:32
Stammering really isn't there.
Scroobius PipHOST
14:34
They did like a YouGov survey, and I think one in 20 people could name a character in TV or film who stammers, and less than that could name more than one.
speaker_18GUEST
56:33
And we're using GB0RVR.
speaker_18GUEST
56:36
We have a special license from Ofcom to operate on the location for the day.
speaker_18GUEST
56:40
So we apply for that beforehand.
Alasdair StewartHOST
56:42
Is this a sort of a national event of a similar radio station set up for today? Yes,
Frank McKennaHOST
47:43
And someone comes along and goes, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Frank McKennaHOST
47:46
Whoa, Ofcom have put these rules in place.
Frank McKennaHOST
47:50
Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart, John Sopel and Emily Maitlis, they ain't happy with McKenna and Maguire spending a million pounds.
Frank McKennaHOST
47:58
No, no, no.
Benedict TownsendHOST
3:45
And how do you think they're doing on that metric this time?
Hannah TownsendHOST
3:48
There is a character in there called Omar and there have been like hundreds of Ofcom complaints for coercive control behaviour because he's kind of in a relationship with this girl.
Hannah TownsendHOST
3:58
There's a lot of people in there.
Hannah TownsendHOST
3:59
There's a character called Rochelle who there was a quadruple amputee and she kind of went up to her and said, I've been scared my whole life of people like you.
Neil OliverHOST
14:30
I think with yourself, we used the phrase turbo cancer.
Neil OliverHOST
14:36
And Ofcom were very upset about the use of that term at the time.
Neil OliverHOST
14:41
But it's certainly interesting to me to hear that you and your colleagues, you know, are still hyperprogression or turbo cancer, but you're still describing the same phenomenon.
Neil OliverHOST
14:52
So as well as people's immune systems becoming exhausted, there was another problem besides.
EllieHOST
30:34
OK, we need to just stay away from Man City, Alexis.
EllieHOST
30:44
Dancing a salsa with lifts we can't properly describe without using some tier two Ofcom words.
EllieHOST
30:49
It's Danny Dyer and her partner Nikita.
EllieHOST
30:52
And yet it was strangely polite.
Matthew MageeHOST
1:42
Online service providers would have to more closely control the extent to which children can access body stigma or depression content on their platforms under proposals put forward by the UK's online safety regulator.
Matthew MageeHOST
1:56
Ofcom has recommended a recategorisation of body stigma and depression content under the UK's Online Safety Act with a view to ensuring greater protections for children against that kind of content.
Matthew MageeHOST
2:07
It would be recategorised to priority content that is harmful to children.
Matthew MageeHOST
2:13
Online safety regulation expert Gemma Erskine said the difficulty with categories like body stigma and depression content is that they're not easy to define.

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