Play TV "misleading and unfair" Broadcast watchdog
RONAN McGREEVYTV3’S LATE-NIGHT game show PlayTV engaged in practices that were “misleading and unfair”, the broadcasting watchdog has found. The programme has been the subject of complaints from viewers since it was first broadcast last summer.
In its first ruling the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s (BAI) upheld 10 complaints against PlayTV to add to the 16 upheld by its predecessor, the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC).
The chairman of the BAI’s compliance committee, Prof Chris Morash, said the PlayTV programme was a matter of “ongoing concern”.
The BAI has the ultimate sanction, under the Broadcasting Act, 2009, to force a programme off air for persistent breaches of its contract. However, BAI spokesman Brian Furey said there was, as yet, no mechanism to fine broadcasters for such breaches, although the Act provided for fines of up to €250,000.