TV networks are calling for a review of broadcasting standards, saying the BSA is too conservative when it comes to sex on screen.

Expletive-laden exchanges recounted in a TVNZ documentary on the Aramoana massacre have been judged a breach..

A TV One film should have carried a warning as it contained a rape scene, the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has found.

New Zealand's latest in flight safety video stars Richard Simmons - and includes cameos from Paul Henry and Phil Keoghan.

The Broadcasting Standards Authority has ordered TVNZ to pay $1,500 to a defence witness in the Bain trial whose evidence was questioned in a television documentary.

Broadcasters are appealing to the High Court in an attempt to stop tightening of controls for sexual content on television.

A radio competition offering listeners the chance to "win a wife" has appalled a former MP who is calling for it to be pulled.

MediaWorks is under fire for a series of "sexualised" adverts - one of which features the words "backstabbing sl**".

The Government and Sky Television are both dismissing the need for regulation of video content.

The authority has dismissed a complaint that a segment on the children's show was "loaded with innuendo".

The authority's decision, released today, focused on statements made by Mr Henry on the TV One show 'Breakfast' between March and September.

NZ's broadcasting watchdog has upheld complaints about 3News showing sex scenes from Outrageous Fortune.

A complaint about young women posing topless on NZ's Next Top Model has not been upheld.