Mar 3 2022
Following moves by tech companies and the EU to reduce the visibility of Russian state media site RT, the network says it will begin streaming its content on a YouTube-like platform called Rumble. “RT gets ready to… Rumble: After a multitude of platforms have moved to knock out our broadcast and limit social media…,” RT […]
Mar 2 2022
Kremlin-backed media outlets RT and Sputnik are officially banned in the EU as of Wednesday morning, in a move meant to crack down on Russian disinformation amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions against the news groups were published in the EU’s Official Journal, effectively providing legal grounds to implement the Commission and EU governments’ […]
Dec 20 2018
RT is “extremely disappointed” following British broadcasting regulator Ofcom’s announcement that some content on the RT news network was in breach of impartiality rules. In a bulletin issued December 20, Ofcom stated that a total of seven programmes or segments, including Sputnik, Crosstalk and various items of news coverage were found to be in breach […]
Apr 18 2018
Ofcom has today opened seven new investigations into the due impartiality of news and current affairs programmes on the RT news channel. The investigations (PDF, 240.5 KB) form part of an Ofcom update, published today, into the licences held by TV Novosti, the company that broadcasts RT. Until recently, TV Novosti’s overall compliance record has not […]
Mar 13 2018
Britain’s media regulator Ofcom says it will “consider the implications for RT’s broadcast licenses” if it’s determined there was “an unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the UK” in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal. In a statement, Ofcom said: “As the independent UK broadcasting regulator, Ofcom has an ongoing duty to be […]
Oct 18 2016
Editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan tweeted: “They’ve closed our accounts in Britain. All our accounts. ‘The decision is not subject to review.’ Praise be to freedom of speech!” The bank said the decision was “not taken lightly” and that the accounts were “still operative” at present. An MP from Russia’s ruling party has said its parliament will […]
Sep 22 2015
UK regulator Ofcom has come down heavily on Russia Today (RT and RT Europe) over a series of 14-minute transmissions called ‘The Truthseekers:Genocide of Eastern Ukraine’ which RT broadcast in July. Ofcom stated that RT had made a “serious breach of [the Ofcom] codes”. Ofcom stated that the news broadcaster made no attempt to provide […]
Apr 8 2015
In 2015, RT (Russia Today), which has often been accused of being the Kremlin’s mouthpiece targeting foreign audiences, will receive $402 million (15.4 billion rubles), a 30 percent increase from last year. The cost of distributing RT around the world reportedly now exceeding the channel’s current 2014 budget. A BBC report warns the UK government […]
Nov 10 2014
RT, the Russian news channel, managed to breach Ofcom regulations four times in a single week back in early March over its allegedly biased coverage of the Ukrainian crisis. Ofcom considered that as news programming, the content in question raised issues warranting investigation under its key rule that: “News, in whatever form, must be reported […]
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Mar 18 2022
Ofcom revokes RT’s broadcast licence
Ofcom has today revoked RT’s licence to broadcast in the UK, with immediate effect. We have done so on the basis that we do not consider RT’s licensee, ANO TV Novosti, fit and proper to hold a UK broadcast licence. Today’s decision comes amid 29 ongoing investigations by Ofcom into the due impartiality of RT’s […]
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By Expat • News Channels • Tags: Ofcom, RT