Category Archives: Complaints to Broadcasters

Film and Video Labelling Body – censorship and charity

The Film and Video Labelling body (“FVLB”), like the Society for Promotion of Community Standards Inc (“SPCS”), is constituted as an incorporated society under the Incorporated Societies Act 1908. Like the Society, which is a registered charity (registered with the Charities Commission on 17/12/2007 Reg. No. CC20268); it too is a registered charity (registered 28/01/2008 [...]

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Media Matters in NZ Inc. calls for BSA to be disbanded for penalizing complainant

Media Matters in New Zealand Inc. – a registered charity with the Charities Commission – in its press release issued on Sunday, has called for the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) to be disbanded. The charity was registered with the Commission on 30 June 2008 (Reg. No. CC4277) see: http://www.viewers.org.nz/Press_Release_20110814.html BSA fines complainant Donald MacDonald Press Statement [...]

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BSA Slams TVNZ’s Close Up Porn Promotion

Media Release by Family First NZ, a registered charity with the NZ Charities Commission. “The trend by the networks to sexualise news and current events is disturbing” – Family First NZ Family First NZ is welcoming a ruling from the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) demanding that TVNZ publicly acknowledge their breach of broadcasting standards for [...]

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TV sleaze backlash gathers steam [as community groups express concerns]

TV sleaze backlash gathers steam By John Drinnan Sep 17, 2010 Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10674013 Pressure is building on television networks to reduce the amount of sleaze in early prime time. The Broadcasting Standards Authority is expected to announce a decision next week that will set the new tone. There is particular concern about sexual content on [...]

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Sex creeps into early prime time TV

NZ Herald Friday Sep 3, 2010 A respected children’s media expert is lamenting that kids have been sacrificed to sleaze under New Zealand’s TV standards system. Ruth Zanker is a lecturer at Christchurch Polytechnic and a researcher who has specialised in children and the media. She has noted a change. “There is a general sexualising [...]

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BSA Report on Children’s Television Viewing: Cause for Alarm

Media Release: 8 May 2008 The Society is not surprised that over half the sample (56%) of more than 600 adult “primary caregivers” of children aged between six and 13, who were interviewed as part of a report into children’s television viewing habits; were unable to identify 8.30 p.m. as the time after which programmes [...]

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Outrage over BSA Ruling on "Bloody Mary"

Press Release 30/06/06  The Society submitted a comprehensive written complaint to the broadcaster over the screening of the highly offensive “Bloody Mary” episode of South Park. The broadcaster made no effort to interact with the details of the complaint other than send back to us a superficial stock reply sent to all complainants. There was [...]

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Society’s complaint to Broadcaster over "Bloody Mary"

Society’s letter of complaint to CanWest Media Works over “South Park’s” episode “Bloody Mary” Thursday, 30 March 2006 Society president Mike Petrus says: “It is a sad indictment of the Standards Committee of the TV Channel C4, that it has failed to concede that any aspect of the contents of the “South Park” episode “Bloody [...]

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