Compliance

Our next professional studies lecture was on the 11th November 2013 and the theme of this lecture was compliance. Compliance is an important part of our business as it keeps the audience who don't want to listen to a certain topic or conversation unharmed and also keeps radio stations and presenters from getting sued, fired or banned from the industry. It is important to protect the listener and keep them coming back so if you broadcast something that might offend a large section of the audience, you will not have the ability to do that.  

One of the best ways to make sure you don't get in trouble, when it refers to regulation and compliance, is it too look over you final work and make sure there is nothing that is not within the guidelines of which you are working towards, this is also stated in the roles and responsibility section of the BBC guidelines 'It is a fundamental requirement of the compulsory compliance process that all pre-recorded content must be watched or listened to in full by the producer and a senior editorial figure prior to broadcast.' (BBC Editorial Guidelines, 2013). Knowing the fact that the BBC have a whole section in their guidelines about looking over your shows how important it is and is something that I will do with all my work to make sure that it is within the boundaries of certain issues.

Compliance is an issue that I feel is one of the most over-looked but most important part of media in general, as it protects everyone from young to old and rich to poor, so I feel it is important for us as producers to make sure that we take care of our work when it comes to compliance and make sure it reaches its full potential and not taken down because of a certain compliance guideline.


References

BBC Editorial Guidelines, 2013, Editorial Compliance, http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/page/guidelines-using-roles-responsibilities/#editorial-compliance