LONDON: Britain’s broadcasting regulator Ofcom on Monday said Russian state-funded channel RT breached impartiality rules 29 times in just four days after the invasion of Ukraine.
Ofcom launched 29 investigations into 15 RT News bulletins on February 27, March 1 and March 2 after complaints from viewers and its own monitoring.
It also looked at a documentary, “Donbass Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” which was repeated on March 1 and 2.
“In each case, we found that RT’s coverage failed to preserve due impartiality in relation to the conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine,” the regulator said.
“Ofcom considers that these breaches were serious and repeated, and we are minded to consider them for the imposition of a statutory sanction.”
RT is no longer broadcasting in Britain, after Ofcom revoked its license on March 18, saying it was not “fit and proper” to operate in the country.
The British government on March 31 announced sanctions against TV-Novosti, which owns RT, accusing it and other Russian “propagandists” of spreading “lies and deceit” about the invasion.
Ofcom previously fined RT £200,000 ($240,000) for “serious failures” in its coverage of the 2018 nerve agent poisonings blamed on Russia in the English city of Salisbury and of the Syria conflict.
UK regulator mulls fine for RT for Ukraine news coverage
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UK regulator mulls fine for RT for Ukraine news coverage
- RT is no longer broadcasting in Britain, after Ofcom revoked its license on March 18, saying it was not “fit and proper” to operate in the country.
Eurovision Sport, Camb.ai to provide live subtitling for Paralympic Winter Games
- Partnership aims to increase accessibility for all audiences
- Milano Cortina Games run from Friday to March 15
LONDON: Eurovision Sport, the European Broadcasting Union’s free-to-air streaming platform, will provide live and on-demand subtitling for coverage of the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games in partnership with AI language company Camb.ai
The service will run across all competition days, allowing viewers to stream all six Paralympic Winter Games sports on Eurovision Sport with real-time subtitles. The Games open on Friday and run through March 15.
Camb.ai will supply contextual speech-to-text transcription for both live and catch-up coverage, which the organizers said would support accessibility without altering the editorial integrity of broadcasts.
Eurovision Sport Managing Director Alan Fagan said the aim was to make the Games available to “the widest possible audience,” by scaling up digital accessibility across every event on the platform.
The initiative forms part of the EBU’s most extensive digital coverage of a Paralympic Winter Games to date and complements member broadcasters’ linear output.
It also reflects a wider industry push to make live sport easier to follow for viewers watching without sound, people with hearing impairments and audiences consuming content on demand.
Camb.ai’s Chief Technology Officer Akshat Prakash said the company was proud to deepen its partnership with Eurovision Sport, describing the platform as a leader in applying new technology to sports coverage.
The two organizations began working together in 2024, when they delivered what they described as Europe’s first AI-powered real-time translated sports commentary during European Athletics events.
