Decisions - March 2007

The Board of the BCC met on 2 March 2007 to consider and/or adjudicate upon eighteen complaints, six of which related to the same broadcast items. The Commission deferred the adjudications on two complaints for further consideration to the next meeting of the Board.

 

The summaries of the sixteen complaints on which full adjudications were made are accessible on this page (note, all complaint summaries are in MS word format).

 

Upheld

No.	Name	Category	Broadcast Item	Station	Decision
269/06	Mr. E. Pitts	Taste & decency; inappropriate violent content given time of broadcast	All Saints	TV3	Upheld
285/06	Ms. P. McKenna	Advert Codes; prohibited adverts - political end	Adverts - Europe Direct	South East Radio	Upheld
286/06	Ms. P. McKenna	Advert Codes; prohibited adverts - political end	Adverts - Europe Direct	Newstalk	Upheld
287/06	Ms. P. McKenna	Advert Codes; prohibited adverts - political end	Adverts - Europe Direct	Cork's 96/103FM	Upheld
288/06	Mr. A. Coughlan	Advert Codes; prohibited adverts - political end	Adverts - Europe Direct	Cork's 96/103FM	Upheld
289/06	Mr. A. Coughlan	Advert Codes; prohibited adverts - political end	Adverts - Europe Direct	Newstalk	Upheld
290/06	Mr. A. Coughlan	Advert Codes; prohibited adverts - political end	Adverts - Europe Direct	South East Radio	Upheld
317/06	Mr. P. Toibin	Taste & decency; inappropriate sexual content given time of broadcast	Spin Talk	Spin 1038	Upheld

 

Rejected

No.	Name	Category	Broadcast Item	Station	Decision
312/06 & 313/06	Mr. McCamley	Impartiality; partial & bias programme	The Last Judgement; part 1 & part 2	RTÉ TV1	Rejected
9/07 & 10/07	Mr. J. Curtis	Impartiality; partial & bias programme	Hidden History, part 1 & part 2	RTÉ TV1	Rejected
11/07	Mr. P. O'Brien	Advert codes; gender discrimination	Advert - Maltesers	RTÉ TV1	Rejected
17/07	Mr. J. McElheron	Taste & decency; bad language	Ray D'Arcy Show	Today FM	Rejected
18/07	Mr. S. Kelly	Taste & decency; bad language	Ray D'Arcy Show	Today FM	Rejected
24/07	Mr. T. Hardiman	Impartiality; unfair discussion	Keith Finnegan show	Galway Bay FM	Rejected