“About us. Our legal duties: Our main legal duties, as set out in the UK Communications Act 2003, are to ensure: the UK has a wide range of electronic communications services, including high-speed information services (for example, broadband); a wide range of high-quality television and radio programmes are provided, appealing to a range of tastes and interests; television and radio services are provided by a range of different organisations; people who watch television and listen to the radio are protected from harmful or offensive material;
people are protected from being treated unfairly in television and radio programmes, and from having their privacy invaded; and the radio spectrum (the airwaves used by everyone from taxi firms and boat owners, to mobile-phone companies and broadcasters) is used in the most effective way. We are funded by: fees from industry for regulating broadcasting and communications networks; and grant-in-aid from the Government. We answer to the UK Parliament but we are independent of the UK Government. The Government Departments that sponsor us are the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’ (Retrieved on August 26, 2008 from ‘About us’ from http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consumeradvice/guide/#aboutus). “Media Literacy Bulletins” (Retrieved on August 26, 2008 from http://www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/medlitpub/bulletins/).
