Nine Radio responds to ‘heavily onerous’ breach hit to 2GB’s Ben Fordham
Nine Radio has responded to a breach it was issued by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) this week, involving 2GB’s Ben Fordham.
On Tuesday, it was revealed that 2GB and 3AW breached broadcasting rules by failing to disclose commercial agreements between their presenters and companies featured in their current affairs programs.
An investigation by ACMA into the Ben Fordham Live program found that comments that were favourable to ride-share company Uber breached broadcasting laws as there was “a commercial agreement in place between Uber and the program host at the time of the broadcast [that] was not disclosed on-air”.
Separately, a 3AW Afternoons broadcasts from August 2023 found that comments “favourable to automotive manufacturer BMW were made by the program host without disclosing that there was a commercial agreement in place between BMW and the host”.
lol weren’t these laws originally introduced because Ben Fordham’s mentor, Alan Jones (and John Laws), was doing exactly the same thing? Might be worth mentioning.
Only onerous as they got caught before and thus is their consequence, so cry us all a river