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MTV Europe Fined By ITC

The ITC have decided to fine MTV Europe £60,000 for three breaches of the ITC’s programming and advertising codes.
The programmes which provoked the response by the ITC were, The Worst of Most Wanted. The ITC considered the show, aired on Saturday 6 May, to have been inappropriately scheduled and unsuitable for children; Safe and Sexy, aired on Monday 1 May was considered by the ITC to be shown too soon after the Watershed when children could still be watching; The Pepe Jeans advert was also criticised. The advert featured a boy wrecking his fathers car and an ending which could be construed as a double suicide. The ITC did not believe that these were acceptable themes for television advertising.
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