Off the Ball, Radio Scotland, 10 February 2024

Complaint

A listener complained that remarks by the presenter Tam Cowan were 鈥渨holly inappropriate for broadcast on a daytime family show鈥. 聽The ECU considered the complaint in the light of the 麻豆社鈥檚 Editorial Guidelines on harm and offence.


Outcome

The ECU concurred with the view already taken by 麻豆社 Scotland that the elements of sexism and sexual innuendo in the remarks rendered them unsuitable for a programme broadcast at Saturday lunchtime, and noted that Mr Cowan had subsequently taken part in one-to-one equality, diversity and inclusion training.聽 In the ECU鈥檚 view this was sufficient to resolve the issue of complaint.

Resolved