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Article: Ofcom draws a blank in bid to find Scottish guardian
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- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- January 18, 2004
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OFCOM, the media super regulator, is struggling to find a director
for Scotland after two candidates shortlisted for the post were
rejected by the watchdog's executive board in London.
It is understood that Ofcom - which gained regulatory powers over
Britain's GBP 40bn communications industry this month - had hoped to
have a director for Scotland in place by now after interviewing
candidates in December.
But the board, led by chief executive Stephen Carter - the former
boss of cable group NTL - is understood to have vetoed both names put
forward.
With the positions of director in Wales and Northern Ireland
already filled, it is feared Scottish interests in forthcoming
reviews of the UK's ...