1) What is regulation and why do media industries need to be regulated? Systems of regulation are required to provide rules and regulations to ensure that organisations operate fairly. the government passed the video recordings act in 1984, which introduced regulation to the video market for the first time. Cinema style classification certificates were introduced, preventing young people from obtaining material that was unsuitable for them. 2) What is OFCOM responsible for? Ofcom is an example of a statutory regulation. this means that the rules are backed up by the force of the law and anyone who were to broadcast them could be punished for breaking them by either having their license revoked or in some cases having to pay a large fine. One of the most noticeable and well known elements of code is the 'watershed' which a law which prohibits material which is unsuitable to children to be aired on TV between the hours of 5:30am and 9pm. 3) Look...
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