Trading Standards Institute



ts broadcast

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It is always a great challenge to give consumer and business guidance because of the vast array of complex laws that we have.

So to help you out we offer the syndication service ts broadcast, delivering a variety of content to your corporate website. This cost effective quality controlled product ensures reliable up-to-date advice and information. New! iframe version now available.

Download a ts broadcast content overview

ts broadcast is a national solution delivered locally. It will:

  • supply information, advice and important product safety recall details
  • help corporate IT departments present quality controlled information
  • provide material developed by TSI.

See how other authorities are using broadcast at Bristol, Halton and South Lanarkshire.

As a ts broadcast user you benefit from:

  • comprehensive advice and information for businesses and consumers, to engage all citizens
  • material for your website in your authority’s livery and corporate style
  • nationally produced leaflets, updated and maintained for you by TSI's panel of experts
  • less work dealing with information requirements in producing and maintaining the information
  • easy content management for your website
  • approved content that can be tailored to go with your own local material.

Almost 50 per cent of trading standards authorities in the UK are using ts broadcast or ts community. ts broadcast offers the perfect solution for trading standards services and other information providers. Others agree:

'ts broadcast has allowed us to have up-to-date information that is accurate, consistently written and has been peer reviewed.

'We are able to choose which information to display, and also to provide our own information.'

'ts broadcast has allowed us to maintain flexibility in providing information whilst giving the best available information to our users on the internet'.

Andrew Wilson, Senior Trading Standards Officer, Bristol City Council.

Computer Weekly has also described the system as a 'Smart Project'.

Access is available using differing technologies - JavaScript, web service or iframe - to meet the specific technical needs of your own ICT systems.

Take a look at our ts broadcast brochure (PDF 3.82MB), the ts broadcast JavaScript manual (PDF 268Kb) or ts broadcast web service manual (PDF 671Kb).

ts broadcast - maximum effect, minimum effort