Considering that their prevous breaches of broadcasting standards were around issues like homosexuality and abortion they can now rest happy, knowing that they can say as many nasty things as they like about homosexuals, or show as many aborted foetuses as they like during childrens hour.
Presumably they will still be happy to accept gift aid support from the UK government whilst broadcasting from offshore?
From their official announcement:
Of course "their regulatory authority" is still OFCOM. They are just choosing to sail under a flag of convenience so they don't have to comply with British standards, just like many of the sex chat channels on Sky. Strange bedfellows indeed. In fact OFCOM is clamping down heavily on the sex channels, which is the sort of broadcasting regulation you would thing Revelation TV would be happy to be part of. Instead, they are joining a free for all with no standards..All TV stations have to have a license issued by their regulatory authority. Since its inception in 2003 Revelation TV’s license has been with the UK regulator, Ofcom. The staff at Ofcom have been helpful to the Station, but there have been issues of conflict as Revelation has sought to be truthful to its Christian basis.
Revelation TV now has a Spanish license and the new Channel will begin to operate under that licence from the 1st of April. Since the beginning of 2010, Howard has been commuting between London and Spain to make the necessary arrangements for the Station to comply with the requirements of its Spanish license.
See this article for further background information on Revelation TV:
http://www.ecalpemos.org/2009/04/genesis-tv-and-revelation-tv.html
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Here is an article is about one of the erotic chat channels heading offshore for the same reasons:
http://ofwatch.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/british-babe-channel-to-go-uncensored/
What strange bedfellows Revelation TV keeps, and in spite of its apparent anti Europe stance, it is happy to bank its survival on European broadcasting legislation.
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