{"id":539,"date":"2008-06-08T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/06\/mtv-europe-fined-for-homophobic-windowlicking\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T10:07:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T17:07:59","slug":"mtv-europe-fined-for-homophobic-windowlicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/08\/mtv-europe-fined-for-homophobic-windowlicking\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV Europe Fined For Homophobic Windowlicking"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Variety<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

MTV fined $484,500 by U.K. regulator<\/h1>\n

Net taking steps to prevent future breaches<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0<\/span>STEVE CLARKE<\/a><\/h3>\n

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MTV Networks Europe has been fined a total of \u00a3255,000 ($484,500) by U.K. media regulator Ofcom for \u201cwidespread and persistent\u201d breaches of its broadcasting code by four of its channels.<\/p>\n

The Viacom-owned operator will have to pay the following penalties: TMF \u00a380,000 ($152,000), MTV France \u00a335,000 ($66,500), MTV UK \u00a380,000 ($152,000) and MTV Hits \u00a360,000 ($114,000).<\/p>\n

The \u201chighly offensive language and material\u201d was broadcast before the 9pm family-viewing watershed.<\/p>\n

Auds complained about a number of shows. They included: repeated use of the words \u201cmotherfucker\u201d, \u201cfuck you\u201d and \u201cfuck\u201d in a music video by Aphex Twin for the song \u201cWindowlicker\u201d on TMF, and racist and homophobic text messages aired by MTV France in \u201cBelge Chat.”<\/p>\n

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Additionally TMF screened a trailer for the reality skein \u201cTotally Jodie Marsh\u201d on seven occasions between 9.48am and 3.15pm on July 24 last year containing the sentence: “I just don’t want you settling down with some fucking wanker from a modeling agency.”<\/p>\n

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from Variety MTV fined $484,500 by U.K. regulator Net taking steps to prevent future breaches By\u00a0STEVE CLARKE \u00a0 MTV Networks Europe has been fined a total of \u00a3255,000 ($484,500) by U.K. media regulator Ofcom for \u201cwidespread and persistent\u201d breaches of its broadcasting code by four of its channels. The Viacom-owned operator will have to pay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}