Audience complaints
Published: 13 March 2024
Last updated: 19 March 2025
A weekly report of complaints assessed under the Broadcasting Code.
Bulletin for complaints about BBC online material
Published: 5 February 2024
Last updated: 17 March 2025
The bulletin for complaints about BBC online material reports on the outcome of Ofcom’s consideration on complaints received about the BBC’s online material.
Broadcast and On Demand Bulletin
Published: 4 March 2024
Last updated: 17 March 2025
The Broadcast and On Demand Bulletin reports on investigations into potential breaches of Ofcom’s codes and rules for TV, radio and video-on-demand programmes.
Broadcast and On Demand Bulletin: Notes to broadcasters
Published: 4 March 2024
Last updated: 17 March 2025
Ofcom occasionally publishes notes to alert broadcasters and on demand service providers to key changes or information.
Section five: Due impartiality and due accuracy
Published: 5 January 2021
Last updated: 17 March 2025
This section of the Broadcasting Code relates to the concept of "due impartiality" as it applies to news and other programmes.
Ofcom fines The Word Network £150,000 for breaking broadcasting rules
Published: 11 March 2025
Ofcom has today imposed a £150,000 financial penalty on religious channel, The Word Network, for breaking broadcasting rules.
Decision – Word Network Operating Company Inc
Published: 11 March 2025
Ofcom has imposed a financial penalty of £150,000 on Word Network Operating Company Inc (“the Licensee”) after our investigation found its service, The Word Network, in breach of our broadcasting rules.
Broadcasting and on demand sanction decisions
Published: 26 September 2023
Last updated: 11 March 2025
Ofcom may impose a sanction if we consider that a broadcaster has seriously, deliberately, repeatedly or recklessly breached one of our requirements.
Consultation: General procedures for investigating breaches of broadcast licences: Consultation on revising the procedures
Published: 3 December 2024
Last updated: 10 March 2025
Ofcom has a duty to secure the wide availability of TV and radio services throughout the UK and to help us carry this out, we grant broadcasting licences with specific licence conditions attached. We enforce these licence conditions in line with our published General Procedures, which were last updated in April 2017. Since then, there have been developments in the types of broadcasters we regulate, changes in our approach to regulation, and an increase in our caseload. In this context, we are now reviewing our General Procedures to ensure they remain fit for purpose.
Programme-related guidance
Published: 26 May 2010
Last updated: 6 March 2025
This section includes information for the broadcast industry, covering the Broadcasting Code and other programme-related guidance