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Children's Interests: A Review of Broadcasting Standards Authority Child Complaints Decisions

This review has been commissioned to examine BSA decisions on complaints lodged regarding children as viewers of, and participants in, television broadcasts.  

Some Content May Offend: Public Attitudes to Content Classifications and Warnings on Free-to-Air and Pay TV

This research explored public awareness of, and satisfaction with, classifications and warnings used on New Zealand free‑to‑air and pay television.  

What Not to Swear: The Acceptability of Words in Broadcasting

Warning! These reports and this page contain language that some people will find offensive! This report documents the findings of a national survey carried out in…

A Review of Research on Sexual Violence in Audio-Visual Media

The Classification Office commissioned researchers from Victoria University to conduct a literature review focusing on research conducted in the 1990s or later. The review grouped together…

Principles and Pragmatism: A Journalist's Perspective

This report provides an assessment of BSA decisions from a journalist’s perspective. This report addresses the following questions: • Where is the tension between the ‘bottom-line standards’…

Māori Worldviews and Broadcasting Standards: What Should Be the Relationship?

The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has written this paper in order to provide a platform for discussion surrounding the relationship between broadcasting standards and Maori worldviews…

Viewing Violence: Audience Perceptions of Violent Content in Audio-Visual Entertainment

This qualitative research explores audience perceptions of violence in audio-visual entertainment. The conception and planning of the study was informed by several significant earlier studies, including UK…

Seen and Heard: Children's Media Use, Exposure, and Response

With greater access to a variety of media devices and media content, there is a need for new research that updates the information collected during 1999/2000,…

Public Perceptions of Highly Offensive Language

In 2005 the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993 was amended to empower the Office of Film and Literature Classification to restrict, but not ban,…

Balancing Act: A Review of the Balance Provision in the New Zealand Broadcasting Standards

This report was commissioned by the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) to provide some insight into the continuing relevance, or otherwise, of the standard of ‘balance’ as…