British Regulators Reject BBC Plan to Add Local Web Video News (New York Times)
The decision is a setback to the digital ambitions of the BBC, which has expanded aggressively on the Internet.

Jonathan Ross's post-Sachsgate BBC Radio 2 comeback date revealed (Guardian Unlimited)
Jonathan Ross is set to make his comeback from suspension by returning to his weekly Saturday morning BBC Radio 2 show on January 24. The BBC announced yesterday the date its highest paid star would make his return to broadcasting after being suspended for 12 weeks without pay for making offensive phone calls to actor Andrew Sachs, with Russell Brand , on the latter's Radio 2 show last ...

Rory Peck Awards finalist: BBC owes news freelancers proper credit (Guardian Unlimited)
News broadcasters were criticised last night for failing to give cameramen due recognition for their work, with freelance journalist Vaughan Smith telling an awards ceremony "I've been shot more times than I have been credited by the BBC ". Smith, speaking at the Rory Peck Awards in London last night, made an impassioned plea for fairer treatment from broadcasters and for large news ...

Regulators Reject BBC Plan on Web Video News (New York Times)
The BBC Trust and Ofcom, the British media regulator, said the proposal would have hurt rivals in the private sector, including the Web sites of newspapers.

Papers bash BBC over prank calls (BBC News)
Many of Saturday's newspapers say the way prank calls to Andrew Sachs were broadcast shows a BBC culture of no accountability.

BBC governors back decision to keep top star despite lewd prank (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The BBC's governing body on Friday blasted the corporation for broadcasting a lewd phone prank -- but backed the decision not to sack the institution's highest-paid star Jonathan Ross over the affair.

BBC star escapes further sanction over prank call (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The BBC's supervisory body said prank telephone calls by TV host Jonathan Ross and comedian Russell Brand were "so grossly offensive" they should never have been broadcast, but did not call for Ross to be sacked.

Crude prank calls broke BBC rules (CNN)
Lewd telephone calls by two British comedians to a well-known actor, which were aired in a BBC radio program, were "grossly offensive" and should never have taken place, the public broadcaster's watchdog group said Friday.

BBC Trust rejects local video websites plan (Gulf Times)
LONDON: The BBC’s governing body has rejected plans for the broadcaster to launch local video services, arguing that they would have a negative impact on commercial media and did not justify licence fee funds.

BBC governing body reports on Sachs row (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The obscene phone calls to Andrew Sachs made by presenters Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand were "grossly offensive" and there was no justification for broadcasting them, the BBC's governing body said on Friday.