Fanny Hill promo. Promo containing adult themes broadcast during news and G programme. Programme classification and children’s interests, upheld. Good taste and decency, subsumed. Order ($2,000 costs to Crown).
The Edge. Broadcast of conversation with listener and her cellphone number. Privacy and fairness. Action taken. Upheld. Order ($1,500 to complainant for breach of privacy).
The Tudors. Contained brief flashes of two characters having sex. Programme information. Not upheld.
Game of Two Halves. Included woman whipping man’s partially bare buttocks. Good taste and decency, and violence. Not upheld.
More FM. Discussion about whether men should wear pink clothing. Discrimination and denigration. Not upheld.
Michael Laws’ talkback. Critical comments about the Children’s Commissioner. Balance and fairness. Not upheld.
One News. Item about Auckland homicide included footage of victim’s family in police car. Privacy. Not upheld.
Hotel Babylon. Sex scene one minute after Adults Only watershed. Action taken. Not upheld.
One News. Item reported share market crash. Accuracy. Not upheld.
A Thousand Apologies. Sketch comedy lampooning the pan-Asian experience in contemporary New Zealand. Fairness. Not upheld.