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A sketch about God that aired as part of the RTE New Year’s Eve Countdown show did not comply with the broadcaster’s own standards, RTE’s boss has said. The sketch by satirical group Waterford Whispers News featured a mocked-up news report in which God was arrested over “ongoing sexual harassment scandals”. RTE is to make a voluntary disclosure of non-compliance to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) following an internal investigation. 1. I am shocked that producer/editor of ...

Muireann Duffy RTÉ have confirmed it will remove a sketch, which was intended as satire, from the RTÉ Player following the decision of the broadcaster’s Editorial Standards Board. As part of RTÉ’s New Year’s Eve Countdown, a segment was aired showing a mocked-up news report featuring former RTÉ news presenter Aengus Mac Grianna claimed God had been arrested over “sexual harassment scandals”. The sketch prompted outrage from some members of the public, with many calli...

  The chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Media Niamh Smyth has called on RTÉ to remove a controversial sketch about God from its media player. Ms Smyth, who is also Fianna Fail’s party’s spokeperson for Arts and Culture, described the sketch which has prompted almost 6,000 complaints to RTÉ as “deeply offensive and blasphemous”. The Waterford Whisper News skit caused widespread offence when the former newsreader Aengus Mac Grianna read out a mock bulletin stating th...

Updated / Thursday, 7 Jan 2021 17:52 RTÉ will carry a public statement and apology A sketch about God on the RTÉ New Years Eve Countdown Show, intended as satire, did not comply with RTÉs own standards and broader regulations, the organisation said today. In a statement, RTÉ said its Editorial Standards Board found that the sketch did not comply with several provisions. These included Section 39 (1) (d) of the Broadcasting Act 2009 and the BAI Code of Programme Standards in relat...

The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail There was a bitter irony to what befell Canada’s local television and radio broadcasters when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Just as the need for local news and information rose, the advertising reve...

Here are the top Canadian telecom stories of 2020 From 5G launches to new legislation, 2020 brought quite a bit of telecom news The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) kicked off major telecom news for the year when it held hearings for its review of mobile wireless services in February. Despite the world being turned upside down shortly after, telecom news didn’t stop amid the COVID-19 pandemic. There were numerous noteworthy things, such as in...

In our November 20 privacy update, we flagged key elements of Bill C-11, the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020, a bill that was introduced on November 17, 2020 by the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Navdeep Bains. Bill C-11 had one day of debate on second reading, on November 24, 2020. Each of the opposition parties signalled support for the general scope of the bill, meaning that it will likely pass this round of debate in principle and be referred to committee to debate t...

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New Ofcom duty of care rules to protect TV show participants will apply to news in exceptional circumstances The new rules have been brought in to help safeguard participants in TV shows after the suspected suicide of a man who appeared on the Jeremy Kyle Show in 2019 and the deaths of former participants on ITV’s Love Island. Timeline However, the regulator did provide reassurances that the new requirements would be unlikely to be strictly applied to news programming. Ofcom is adding require...