The current situation
This section includes our monitoring reports on diversity and equal opportunities in broadcasting, including our interactive data reports.
You can also find links to other areas of our work which relate to diversity, including our role in regulating the BBC and the public service broadcasters.
Annual monitoring reports
Our annual reports provide a picture of how well broadcasters are promoting equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion within their organisations.
TV and radio
Diversity and equal opportunity in TV and radio – 2020 report
TV
Diversity and equal opportunity in TV – 2017–9 reports
Radio
Diversity and equal opportunity in radio – 2018–9 reports
Interactive data reports
Our interactive data reports includes employee diversity profiles for the TV and radio industries in the UK since 2018, including for individual broadcasters and the industry as a whole.
Diversity figures across the broadcasting industry
Detailed figures for the main eight broadcasters
Ofcom's wider diversity work
We carry out a broad range of work relating to diversity in broadcasting.
We review how well the public service broadcasters (PSBs) – BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and S4C – are meeting additional duties relating to diversity
We hold the PSBs to account for requirements relating to regional TV production and programming
We assess the BBC’s performance against diversity-related obligations in our annual reports on the BBC.
We hold Channel 4 to account for diversity-related obligations, including in our latest periodic review (PDF, 811.7 KB).
We enforce our broadcasting code rules, which include that broadcasters must apply ‘generally accepted standards’ to the contents of TV and radio programmes.