BBC veteran broadcaster jailed for sex assaults
Veteran British television and radio presenter Stuart Hall was jailed for 15 months on Monday after admitting to 14 charges of indecently assaulting girls as young as nine.
Veteran British television and radio presenter Stuart Hall was jailed for 15 months on Monday after admitting to 14 charges of indecently assaulting girls as young as nine.
Not content with a 30-minute delay on broadcasts of foreign television channels, communist Vietnam has introduced a brazen new law which observers say could force media outlets such as the BBC and CNN to pay for their own censorship.
LONDON—The BBC said Monday that its World Service shortwave radio broadcasts in English are being jammed in China in a deliberate move by the authorities there to cause “maximum disruption.” “The BBC strongly condemns this action which is designed to disrupt audiences’ free access to news and information,” the world’s largest broadcaster said in [...]
BBC journalists staged a 24-hour strike on Monday in protest at job cuts, preventing the transmission of the flagship Today morning news program and several other television and radio shows.
BBC reporters have walked off the job for 24 hours to protest job cuts at the broadcast firm.
BBC journalists on Monday began a 24-hour strike in protest at compulsory redundancies, causing possible disruption to the broadcaster’s television and radio output.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and European Union Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström will launch a global alliance targeting online child sexual abuse, building on the success of cross-border police operations that have dismantled international pedophile networks.
The BBC marked the 90th anniversary of its first ever transmission on Wednesday, beset by doubts about its future after a series of scandals surrounding the way it has reported child sex abuse allegations.
The head of the BBC dramatically resigned on Saturday just two months into the job, after the public broadcaster’s flagship news show wrongly implicated a British politician in child sex abuse.
The BBC’s Director-General George Entwistle resigned late Saturday after the broadcaster’s flagship news programme wrongly implicated a British politician in child sex abuse.
The BBC admitted on Saturday it faced a “crisis of trust” after being forced to apologize for wrongly implicating a politician in child sex abuse, just weeks after the Jimmy Savile scandal broke.
Britain’s government could order a full public inquiry into the British Broadcasting Corp.’s handling of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal, the country’s top media minister said Sunday.
Internet speculation was circulating Saturday after a BBC news program embroiled in the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal aired a report in which two men claimed they had been abused by a top politician.
