Streamers Will Not Be Regulated Fully In UK For Another Two Years
deadline.comStreamer regulation in the UK will not come into place in full for two years, Ofcom said today. Delivering its roadmap for implementing the Media Bill, which includes the regulation of major U.S.
streamers for the first time, the UK regulator said it will spend the next year hosting roundtable discussions on the subject and putting together a report on the state of the VoD market for the government.
Ofcom will simultaneously start working on a draft code that will set out the regulation and which streamers are to be regulated – referred to as ‘Tier 1 services.’ Once the code is complete, those falling within it will have a 12-month grace period before they have to be “in full compliance,” which means they won’t have to abide by it in full until 2026.
Ofcom said it “proposes to use this period to consult on and finalise new procedures for the handling and resolution of complaints.” Published last year, one of the headline policies in the Media Bill was the move to bring the U.S.
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