SKY's forthcoming summary of the 1995 Five Nations Rugby Championship was dealt with in a promotions videotape. Complaint that the statement about the amount of coverage was inaccurate. Not upheld (content classification).
All Decisions
Billy Connolly's World Tour of Scotland. Description of scrotum. Not upheld (discrimination and denigration).
Just Kidding. Segment featured a practical joke in which an unattended ticking suitcase was left in a public place. Not upheld (good taste and decency).
Emmerdale. Episode featured an armed robbery of a post office and the taking of the post mistress as hostage. Not upheld (law and order, violence).
Live broadcast of the celebrations in San Diego after Team New Zealand won the America's Cup. Offensive language. Not upheld (good taste and decency).
Campbell complained to Television New Zealand Ltd that
Plainclothes. Drug addicts were described as unreliable and untrustworthy "junkies". Not upheld (discrimination and denigration).
One Network News. While reporting a suicide bombing in Gaza, item referred to the remaining Israeli settlements in Gaza. Not upheld (accuracy).
Money show. Item included an interview with the Chief Executive of the New Zealand Lotteries Commission who stated that the chances of winning any prize was in Lotto was about 1 in 20. Not upheld (accuracy). Not applicable (fairness).
60 Minutes: "A Home for Lavinia". Item on the housing problems encountered by a family living in emergency accommodation in a time of relative economic prosperity. Upheld (balance): action taken insufficient. Order (broadcast of a brief summary of TVNZ's Complaints Committee's decision on the original complaint from the Minister of Housing and this decision approved by the Authority.
95 bFM. Two songs containing swearing and allegedly violent lyrics broadcast on Auckland student radio. Upheld (good taste and decency). Not upheld (law and order, children's interests). No order.