News story about an announcement by UK press regulator The Press Complaints Commission that its remit will extend to audiovisual podcasts distributed by UK newspaper web sites, written by Grant Goddard in November 2006 for The Radio Magazine.

1. NEWS: PRESS COMPLAINTS
COMMISSION TO REGULATE
AUDIOVISUAL PODCASTS
DISTRIBUTED BY NEWSPAPER
WEB SITES
by
GRANT GODDARD
www.grantgoddard.co.uk
November 2006

2. News: Press Complaints Commission To Regulate Audiovisual Podcasts Distributed By Newspaper Web Site page 2
©2006 Grant Goddard
The Press Complaints Commission [PCC] is to extend its remit to cover
podcasts and other audiovisual material offered on newspaper web sites. This
will enable listeners and viewers of podcasts published by companies such as
'The Guardian' or 'The Telegraph' to complain to the PCC about their content.
Sir Christopher Meyer, PCC chairman, explained: “The distinction will probably
be whether the content was commissioned by that newspaper. Things like
blogs on the net would not be covered.”
The initiative creates a regulatory anomaly in that podcasts fall outside the
remit of Ofcom as they are distributed over the internet, rather than through
broadcast channels.
[First published in 'The Radio Magazine' as 'PCC To Regulate Press Podcasts', #761, 8 November 2006]
Grant Goddard is a media analyst / radio specialist / radio consultant with thirty years of
experience in the broadcasting industry, having held senior management and consultancy
roles within the commercial media sector in the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia. Details at
http://www.grantgoddard.co.uk