Serious Ofcom warning for Bang Media

Ouch! But good news for their rivals then.

The programme they broadcast on 25 November 2009 was given a MASSIVE fine.

For anyone who can't be bothered to read the whole document, these were the fines

169. For the reasons set out above, the Committee decided to impose a financial penalty on
Bang Channels of £147,250 in respect of the breaches of the Code and Licence
Condition 11, as follows:
£5,000 for the programme broadcast on 20 June 2009;
£5,000 for the programme broadcast on 21 June 2009;
£4,000 for the programme broadcast on 22 June 2009;
£8,000 for the programme broadcast on 20 August 2009;
£10,500 for the programme broadcast on 31 October 2009;
£12,000 for the programme broadcast on 6 November 2009;
£8,500 for the programme broadcast on Tease Me on 7 November 2009;
£9,000 for the programme broadcast on Tease Me 3 on 7 November 2009;
£14,000 for the programme broadcast on 13 November 2009;
£11,250 for the programme broadcast on 15 November 2009;
£17,500 for the programme broadcast on Tease Me on 24 November 2009;
£17,500 for the programme broadcast on Tease Me 2 on 24 November 2009;
£19,000 for the programme broadcast on 25 November 2009; and
£6,000 in respect the breach of Licence Condition 11.

An expensive lollypop at £19000
The report also said that the total fine was over 5% of Bangs annual income
(£147,250 is equivalent to approx 100,000 call minutes!)

Anyone remember what happened on 24/11/09? November 2009 certainly was an expensive month for Bang Media.

Just read the full article and its fucking disgusting handing out such a hefty fine as that, my advice refuse to pay the fine as its completely unjustified and holds no water. Take the bastards to the high court or something but this is pure and simple victimisation and there must be more to this than meets the eye I don't know whats been said but I have a conspiracy theary that the boss of bangbabes media has had some sort of fall out with ofcom and it now appears as if ofcom now have a personal vendetta against bangbabes and are simply trying to force them out of business by all means possible. Are some of the other channels run by the mafia as that might explain why fuck all is ever said to any of the others that push the boundries much further than bangbabes media has ever done. Just a theary as I have no concrete evidence for this but what is crystal clear is that the whole thing just seems highly suspicious to single out one channel alone.

(29-07-2010 17:20 )Chilly Wrote:  Anyone remember what happened on 24/11/09? November 2009 certainly was an expensive month for Bang Media.

Unless 24/11 means 24-25/11?

Bang Babes, Tease Me, 25 November 2009, 00:00 - 05.30

With regard to Rule 1.25, Bang Channels did not accept that the broadcast contained R18-rated equivalent material. However, it accepted that the material which included the insertion of a lollypop into the presenter’s vagina may have exceeded viewer expectations for a channel of this nature.
The Licensee continued that the channel’s internal compliance guidelines were ignored and this resulted in the transmission of content that was not suitable for broadcast. It said that the broadcast was a live transmission and that appropriate action was not taken to suspend the transmission.
It stated that it has now terminated the contract of the producer who was in charge of the transmission.
Bang Channels also stated that the presenters in this broadcast were suspended and returned to work a month later having undergone further compliance training.

Well that level of fine screws it big time for everyone else. I can see BSX calming down and kevlar knickers and cameramen in Iceland for the rest of the channels.

@ vostok. I thought the £19,000 fine would be the Amanda and Jemma lollypop incident, but something major obviously happened the previous day, as the total fine for the 24/11/09 ended up being £35,000. Hmmm, maybe Amanda was also working on the 24th.

Nothing will change in the other channels, why should it, no warnings of any kind have been handed out to the rest so I'm pretty sure they'll happily continue on as they are at the moment. If all the channels toned it down it would be a commercial disaster and they'd lose a shit load of callers as I said in my previous post words have obviously been exchanged between Bangbabes media and ofcom which in turn ofcom has singled them out for unfair treatment finding any excuse to warn threaten or hammer a fine as they see fit. Like everything its probably down to politics and possible bribery as to why the other channels haven't yet felt the full wrath of ofcom who just for the record are as fucking corrupt as they come.

good posts from everyone about the fine and agree with them. no suprise the biggest fine was for lollypop gate