Ofcom

/ ˈɒfkɒm /

acronym

1. Office of Communications: a government body regulating the telecommunications industries; a super-regulator merging the Radio Authority, Independent Television Commission, and Oftel

Example Sentences

The public broadcaster nevertheless remains the most popular UK news source, according to the latest figures published by media watchdog Ofcom.

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After the Ofcom ruling came into effect, we repeated the exercise, this time in collaboration with BBC's Morning Live programme, sharing our findings with presenter Zara McDermott.

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Mr Wright said there would always be room for improvement because "this is not a binary thing that we're necessarily dealing with", and that it was now up to Ofcom to continue investigating and enforcing the law.

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Earlier, responding to Nigel Farage's accusations that the BBC was infected with a left-wing bias, Rhodri Williams, former director of Ofcom in Wales, told BBC Radio Cymru's Dros Frecwast the claims were "completely absurd and unfair".

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Ofcom, the regulator whose job it is to make sure platforms are following the rules, believes many chatbots including Character.ai and the in-app bots of SnapChat and WhatsApp, should be covered by the new laws.

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