Alex Dyke and OFCOM

Alex Dyke, a presenter on BBC Radio Solent recently breached OFCOM rules and consequently was punished by making incredibly rude and insensitive and biased comments towards women breastfeeding in public. This article shows that having a board like OFCOM is necessary in regulating events like this in order to ensure the public isn't being offended by media in the UK, like Alex Dyke's broadcast. His punishment is showing that OFCOM can enforce punishments such as bans and so, the content that stations produce should be taken incredibly seriously.

Even though he received a punishment, he was allowed to return to the station just days after being banned, as this article shows. Thus, in my opinion this is an incredibly weak punishment and shows that OFCOM is influenced in their decisions by the owner of the station in question. The BBC are a power player in the UK Radio Industry, if it had been a presenter on a different radio station, I believe the punishment would've been harsher, as they wouldn't mind offending a smaller station, whereas the BBC are incredibly important in contributing to the BBC Radio Industry.