2010 television investigations

Commercial TV

ATN

No Breach - Dislike, contempt or ridicule

BI 2487 and BI 2494

Commercial TV

ATN

No Breach - Average scheduling limit; Hourly limits

BI 2493

No Breach—Dislike, contempt or ridicule

BI 2506

No Breach - Dislike, contempt or ridicule on grounds of sexual preference No Breach - Privacy

BI 2431

No Breach – Simulation of news or events

BI 2490

No Breach – Simulation of news or events

BI 2498

Breach - Provide substantive response (Complaint handling)

BI 2507

Breach of clause 4.3.1 [factual accuracy] No Breach of clauses 4.3.1 [factual accuracy and representation of viewpoints]; 4.3.11 [correction of significant errors of fact];7.9 [provide a substantive written response to a complaint] Breach of clause 7.12 [advise complainant that they may refer matter to the ACMA]

BI 2436

No Breach – Dislike, contempt or ridicule

BI 2479

No Breach—Discrimination and sterotyping

BI 2481

No Breach—Privacy

BI 2483

No Breach - Classification of material

BI 2529

No Breach - PG classification guidelines

BI 2505

No Breach - Classification of material

BI 2514

No Breach - Classification of material

BI 2517

Breach of clauses 4.3.1 [factual accuracy]; 7.11 [complaint-handling]

BI 2450

Breach – clause 4.3.1 [factual accuracy] No Breach – clause 4.3.11 [correction of significant errors of fact]

BI 2468 s

Breach - Advertisement contained endorsement by popular personalities and proprietary character

BI 2480

No Breach – Factual accuracy; Correction of significant errors; Fairness and impartiality

BI 2482

No Breach - Captioning requirements

BI 2496

No Breach - Material complied with M classification

BI 2501

No Breach - Accuracy; Respond to complaint

BI 2437

No Finding - Premium offer Breach - Repetition of advertisements during C period by BTQ No Breach - No advertisements broadcast during P periods

BI 2378, 2381, 2382, 2383 and 2384

No Finding - Premium offer Breach - Repetition of advertisements during C period by ADS, TVQ, NEW No Breach - No advertisements broadcast during P periods

BI 2379, 2385, 2386, 2387 and 2388

No Breach – Dislike, contempt or ridicule

BI 2475

No Breach—Clause 2.6 (Sex and Sexuality)

BI 2489

Breach – Advice to telephone complaint No Breach – Accuracy; written response within 30 days

BI 2416

No Breach—Discrimination and sterotyping

BI 2442

No Breach - Provoking severe ridicule on the grounds of disability

BI 2444

Breach of clause 4.3.1 [factual accuracy] No Breach of clause 4.3.1 [factual accuracy] Breach of clause 4.3.11 [correction of significant errors of fact] No Breach of clause 4.3.11 [correction of significant errors of fact] Breach of clause 4.4.1 [present news fairly and impartially]

BI 2401

No Breach - Non program matter

BI 2402

No Breach—Material complied with MA 15+ classification

BI 2473

No Breach - Factual accuracy; Unfair identification; Correction of errors

BI 2399

Breach—Accuracy (broadcast of 24 March 2005) No Breach—Accuracy (broadcast of 8 July 2002); Fairness and impartiality; Privacy; Advice to telephone complaints

BI 2369

No Breach - Factual accuracy

BI 2373

Breach - clause 1.2 of the Open Narrowcast Code [program was not presented fairly] Breach - clause 1.3 of the Open Narrowcast Code [gratuitously vilify a group on the basis of ethnicity and religion] Non Breach of the relevant provisions of the BSA, the Open Narrowcast Code or the Open Narrowcast Standard in the nine other programs assessed by the ACMA.

BI 2413

No Breach—M classification guidelines

BI 2455

Breach—Factual accuracy; Misleading simulation No Breach—Factual accuracy; Representation of viewpoint; Misleading simulation; Advice to telephone complainant; Unfair identification; Response to written complain

BI 2371

No Breach - Dislike, contempt or ridicule; Factual accuracy

BI 2410

Breach—clause 6.2 (Television program classifications) of the ABC Code of Practice March 2007

BI 2409

No Breach - Dislike, contempt or ridicule

BI 2419 and 2420

No Breach - MA classification guidelines

BI 2456

No Breach—Not use broadcasting service in commission of offence

BI 2438

No Breach - Did not broadcast more than twice during 30 minutes of a C period; Did not broadcast during a P period; Reference to premium was incidental

BI 2364, 2372, 2389, 2390 and 2391

No Breach—Factual accuracy

BI 2441

Breach - Accuracy; Failure to remedy

BI 2363

Breach – AV15+ classification guidelines

BI 2380

2 Breaches - Accuracy; 1 Breach - Failure to remedy

BI 2348

No Breach - Classification of material

BI 2425

Breach – Complaint-handling

BI 2427

No Breach - Did not demean person or group

BI 2415

No Breach—Impartiality

BI 2403

No Breach - Classification of material; Complaints handling

BI 2411

No Breach - Classification of material; Restrictions on viewing period; Complaints handling

BI 2412

Breach - Clause 1.8.6 of the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice 2004 

BI 2331

Breach – Clause 1.8.6 of the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice 2004 No Breach – Clause 7.9 of the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice 2004

BI 2341

No Breach—Unfair representation of viewpoints; privacy; unfair identification

BI 2329

No Breach - Tobacco advertising prohibition

BI 2356

No Breach—Material complied with G classification

BI 2400

No Breach – Dislike, contempt or ridicule; Offend cultural sensitivities

BI 2333

No Breach - Did not broadcast during scheduled C or P period

BI 2375, 2376, 2377, 2392, 2393, 2394, 2395, 2396, 2397 and 2398

Breach – Complaint-handling

BI 2354

No Finding - Factual accuracy (one statement); No Breach - Factual accuracy (other matters); Dislike, contempt or ridicule; Gratuitous emphasis

BI 2323

Breach - AccuracyNo breach - Fair representation of viewpoints; Unfair identification

BI 2317

No Breach - M classification guidelines

BI 2345

No Breach - Factual accuracy

BI 2367

No Breach - PG classification guidelines

BI 2347

Breach - PG classification guidelines

BI 2339

Breach—AV classification guidelines

BI 2340

No Breach—Accuracy of factual content; Impartiality

BI 2318

Breach - Principal program personalities endorsed and recommended commercial product, embedded advertising

BI 2316

No Breach—Privacy; Substantive written response; Not use service in commission of offence

BI 2283

No Breach – Dislike, contempt or ridicule

BI 2343

Breach – Response within 30 working days No Breach – Dislike, contempt or ridicule; Factual accuracy; Gratuitous emphasis; Fairness and impartiality

BI 2284y

No breach - Material complied with the MA 15+ classification category

BI 2344

No Breach - Captioning requirements

BI 2359

No Breach - Dislike, contempt or ridicule

BI 2320

No Breach – Captioning requirements

BI 2322

Breach of clause 38(1) of Schedule 4 to the BSA - failure to provide a captioning service for Nine News and RPA

BI 2272

No Breach – Material was not proscribed, did not include socially offensive or discriminatory language and complied with G classification time zone

BI 2349

No Breach - Privacy and Sensitivity

BI 2292

Breach of clause 4.3.1 [factual accuracy]

No breach of clause 4.3.2 [public panic]

No breach of clause 4.3.5 [privacy]

No breach of clause 1.8.6 [proscribed material]

No breach of clause 4.3.11 [correction of errors of fact]

BI 2273

Breach of clause 4.3.7 (unfair identification); No Breach of clause 4.3.1 (factual accuracy); No Breach of clause 4.3.10 (portraying a group in a negative light)

BI 2257

No Breach - Captioning requirements

BI 2287