2. BBFC
• The Hunger games is a 12A as it has scenes of threat and violence, some involving sympathetic
characters
• The BBFC can advise cuts for a less-restrictive rating
• The British board of film classification
• To protect children and vulnerable adults from potentially harmful or otherwise unsuitable content
3. ASA
• They used to be called (cap) committee of advertising practise
• Advertising standards authority
• The ASA take acting on complaints and proactively checking the media to take action against
misleading, harmful or offensive advertisements, sales promotions and direct marketing.
• They withdrawn or amended any advertising that breaches the advertising code.
4. PEGI
• PEGI stands for pan European game information
• PEGI decides what games are suitable for children
• They decide suitable games by reviewing them to determine the appropriate PEGI rating for each
game.
• They can make a recommendation to advisory board which can charge the game makers.
5. Ipso
• Independent press standards organisation
• Formally (pcc) now Ipso
• They make newspaper and magazines follow the editors code practise
• They investigate online material that receive complaints
• Ipso can conduct its own investigations against newspaper. It also has the power to undertake
monitoring work.
• PCC was replaced by ipso because it receiving complaints about their lack of action in the phone
hacking scandal.
6. OFCOM
• Communications regulator
• Ofcom is the communications regulator. Ofcom is the communications regulator in the UK. They
regulate the TV, radio and video on demand sectors, fixed line telecoms, mobiles, postal services,
plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate.
• Ofcom have the power to upheld a complaints or not upheld due to their investigate in the TV,
radio and video
