{"id":994578,"date":"2026-02-25T10:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T04:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994578"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:01:02","slug":"uk-to-regulate-netflix-and-other-streamers-in-line-with-broadcasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/uk-to-regulate-netflix-and-other-streamers-in-line-with-broadcasters\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to regulate Netflix and other streamers in line with broadcasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Britain said on Tuesday Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and other streamers would be required to follow the same rules on content and accessibility \u200cas traditional \u2060broadcasters \u2060like the BBC. <\/p>\n<p>Two-thirds of households subscribe to at least one major streamer, with 85% of people using an on-demand service each month, compared to 67% who watch live \u2060TV, the \u200cgovernment said. <\/p>\n<p>Bringing the services into the scope of \u2060regulator Ofcom&#8217;s broadcasting code would protect audiences from harmful content, and ensure the provision of accessibility services like subtitles, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain said on Tuesday Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and other streamers would be required to follow the same rules on content and accessibility \u200cas traditional \u2060broadcasters \u2060like the BBC. Two-thirds of households subscribe to at least one major streamer, with 85% of people using an on-demand service each month, compared to 67% who watch live \u2060TV, the \u200cgovernment said. Bringing the services into the scope of \u2060regulator Ofcom&#8217;s broadcasting code would protect audiences from harmful content, and ensure the provision of accessibility services like subtitles, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}