Joint News Conference Statement
by the
Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica
and the
Electoral Commission of Jamaica

On Tuesday June 19, 2012 the Broadcasting Commission convened a meeting with the heads of television, radio and cable entities to discuss the Commission’s concerns about an increasing number of breaches in content standards, copyright compliance and service coverage.

The matter of service provision by CVM television has been the subject of Broadcasting Commission attention, well ahead of the Olympic Games. As late as May 15, 2012 the Commission provided CVM with the findings of a technical survey on the level and quality of coverage by broadcasters holding broadcasting licences. 

“When you see the ratings, don’t ignore them, because there are people, who have done studies on these things,” said the organisation’s Executive Director, Cordel Green during a presentation at the Mona High School in St. Andrew on Tuesday, February 5.

Executive Director of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ), Cordel Green, in his address to sixth form students of Glenmuir High School in Clarendon on Tuesday, February 19 ,said they should seek to be “uploaders rather than downloaders” of content.

Students from select schools will be establishing radio clubs and radio stations in their institutions, under phase three of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica’s (BCJ) Media Literacy Project.

The media watchdog agency the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ) says it has launched an advertising campaign focusing on the protection of children against harmful content, as well as antipiracy and payola.

Broadcasting Commission: No legal basis for intervention in commercial agreements between content owners and programme distributors

AN executive of the Broadcast Commission of Jamaica (BCJ) says the organisation has urged government to take strong action against journalists guilty of involvement in payola.