Britain's media regulator, Ofcom, says it has revoked Russian-backed television channel RT's license to broadcast in the United Kingdom "with immediate effect."
"We have done so on the basis that we do not consider RT’s licensee, ANO TV Novosti, fit and proper to hold a UK broadcast license," Ofcom said in a statement posted on its website on March 18.
Ofcom said it took the decision as it investigates 29 cases looking into the impartiality of RT’s news and current affairs coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
"We consider the volume and potentially serious nature of the issues raised within such a short period to be of great concern -- especially given RT’s compliance history, which has seen the channel fined £200,000 for previous due impartiality breaches," the statement said.
Reuters quoted RT as saying that it has been "falsely judged" by Ofcom.
