Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Scoop InfoPages
This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register Broadcasting Standards Authority for InfoPages here.
Broadcasting Standards Authority - Latest News [Page 7]
Complaint from Prime Minister’s Office not upheld
Monday, 19 September 2011, 4:32 pm | Broadcasting Standards Authority
A One News item about the Government upgrading its BMWs and a donation from a BMW dealership did not breach standards, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has found. Kevin Taylor, on behalf of the Prime Minister’s Office complained that the teaser ... More >>
BSA decision: One News on Sale of BMWs
Monday, 19 September 2011, 3:30 pm | Broadcasting Standards Authority
Standard 5 (accuracy) – item did not state as fact or imply that there was a link between the car contract and the donation – item fairly presented views of the Prime Minister and the dealership involved – high level of public interest in reporting ... More >>
BSA decision: One News on Harawira travel expenses
Monday, 19 September 2011, 3:27 pm | Broadcasting Standards Authority
Standard 5 (accuracy) – comparison based on Parliamentary Service expenditure only – failed to mention that Māori Party MPs also received funds from Ministerial Services – created misleading impression that Mr Harawira spent more than the entire ... More >>
Judgment: Outrageous Fortune - language
Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 11:00 am | Broadcasting Standards Authority
frequent use of language amounted to broadcast of strong adult material too close to 8.30pm watershed – broadcaster did not adequately consider children’s interests – upheld More >>
Judgment: Paul Henry's Sheila Dikshit comments
Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 10:35 am | Broadcasting Standards Authority
Upheld: Standards 1 (good taste and decency), 6 (fairness) and 7 (discrimination and denigration) – serious breach of broadcasting standards – action taken by broadcaster insufficient More >>
TVNZ to pay costs of $1,000 over Fair Go item
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 1:35 pm | Broadcasting Standards Authority
Television New Zealand has been ordered to pay costs of $1,000 after a Fair Go item was found to have breached two broadcasting standards. More >>
Band of Brothers sex scene complaint upheld
Wednesday, 11 August 2010, 1:28 pm | Broadcasting Standards Authority
Band of Brothers sex scene complaint upheld The Broadcasting Standards Authority has upheld a complaint that a sex scene shown in the World War 2 drama Band of Brothers breached the broadcasting standard protecting children’s interests. More >>
TVNZ ordered to issue statement over Henry
Monday, 12 July 2010, 12:45 pm | Broadcasting Standards Authority
Television New Zealand has been ordered to broadcast a statement on its Breakfast programme summarising the Broadcasting Standards Authority’s decision over host Paul Henry’s description of singer Susan Boyle as “retarded”. More >>
Incorrect Target item: TV3 ordered to pay $38,000
Thursday, 3 June 2010, 5:40 pm | Broadcasting Standards Authority
TV3 broadcaster TVWorks has been fined $10,000 and ordered to pay complainants’ legal costs of $28,068.75 after its Target programme incorrectly alleged food from Ponsonby’s Café Cezanne contained faecal coliforms. More >>
Girls treated unfairly in Hawke’s Bay girl gangs
Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 1:00 pm | Broadcasting Standards Authority
A TV3 60 Minutes item on girl gangs in Hawke’s Bay did not sufficiently protect the identities of four girls, exploited them and treated them unfairly, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has found. More >>
Complaints about Samoan guns, drugs story upheld
Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 12:58 pm | Broadcasting Standards Authority
The Broadcasting Standards Authority has found a One News item that claimed Samoa was “awash with drugs and guns” breached three broadcasting standards. More >>
Decision: TVNZ and Butler, Dunleavy and Prior
Wednesday, 7 October 2009, 12:34 pm | Broadcasting Standards Authority
Standard 4 (balance) – programme presented miscellany of views – did not attempt to debate whether global warming was caused by human activity – acknowledged the existence of other perspectives – not upheld Standard 5 (accuracy) – inaccurate ... More >>
New BSA report: Principles and Pragmatism
Tuesday, 2 June 2009, 3:24 pm | Broadcasting Standards Authority
Today the Broadcasting Standards Authority released a new report entitled Principles and Pragmatism. The report is an assessment of BSA decisions from a journalist’s perspective. Author Colin Peacock, host of Radio New Zealand’s Mediawatch programme, ... More >>
Shortland Street Gay Scene Breaches BSA
Monday, 8 December 2008, 10:15 am | Broadcasting Standards Authority
The Broadcasting Standards Authority today released a decision on a complaint that an episode of Shortland Street was in breach of the good taste and decency and children’s interests standards in the Free to Air Television Code of Broadcasting Practice. ... More >>
Latest BSA Decisions - 1 December 2008
Monday, 1 December 2008, 12:19 pm | Broadcasting Standards Authority
Two complaints that The Great Global Warming Swindle, screened on Prime , was unbalanced, inaccurate and unfair were not upheld. The documentary was introduced by a Prime presenter, and was followed by a one hour panel discussion. More >>
Research shows how Kiwi kids use the media
Wednesday, 7 May 2008, 9:12 am | Broadcasting Standards Authority
New research shows that New Zealand children are savvy media users and that while there has been an explosive growth of media devices in homes in the past few years, television remains the principal form of entertainment. More >>
Broadcasters And BSA Release Draft Revised Code
Wednesday, 17 October 2007, 12:00 am | Broadcasting Standards Authority
The Radio Broadcasters Association (RBA) and Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) today released a draft revised Radio Code of Broadcasting Practice. In a joint statement, they said that it addresses the need to revise codes from time to time to reflect ... More >>
BSA Orders Alt TV Off Air For Five Hours
Monday, 15 October 2007, 11:06 am | Broadcasting Standards Authority
The Broadcasting Standards Authority has ordered Alt TV off air for serious breaches of the broadcasting standards. More >>
60 Minutes Herceptin – balance complaint upheld
Friday, 28 September 2007, 10:53 am | Broadcasting Standards Authority
60 Minutes examined differences in breast cancer treatment in Australia and New Zealand, and the funding of the drug Herceptin. An Australian and a New Zealander with similar cancers were interviewed, and their prognoses compared. Pharmac alleged that the ... More >>
BSA Examines New Media Issues
Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 4:06 pm | Broadcasting Standards Authority
The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) is releasing two studies today (22nd August) examining ‘new media’ issues. The first, Children’s Media Use and Responses, examines the latest New Zealand and international studies of children’s media use ... More >>
