BBC suspends phone competitions

Yeah, I saw that. She must have been so embarrassed. I cannot stand her, but I did kind of feel a tad sorry for her.

Well, totally embarrassing for the BBC - why they or someone didn't investigate earlier I don't know (?).

Its abysmal, words fail me. I expect this to be front page news on the Daily Mail tomorrow! what what chaps.

Not on the Daily Star though, more along the lines of "Ziggy gets back with bird again" or something along those lines

To be honest it's quite bad of them but you know it happens, wouldn't be suprised if most channels have done or do the same.

It's on the front of the Daily Telegraph and The Sun at least according to ITV News

The Daily Express is leading with something to do with Muslims

Sorry James, but from a BT landline there is now only one rate for both national and local calls and it's CONSIDERABLY LESS than either the three or four pence a minute for 084 calls or the eight or nine pence a minute for 087 calls.

This is why people are so unhappy about these 08 calls, which have, effectively, become PREMIUM rate, as "normal" costs have reduced significantly.

MUSLIMS PLOT TO KILL DIANA AGAIN

I'm pretty sure they don't as it's the BBC and they can't make profit that way. OK I know I'm saying this in a thread about phone related deception at the BBC - but I doubt they would be as blatantly stupid to try and make profit from an 087 number, as they'd have been caught by now. Or so you would have thought

I don't doubt this has happened with other broadcasters generally.

Though, there is always going to be that extra pressure and high expectation on the BBC, given their public funding, that such deceit is never, ever allowed to happen. Yet it has, and futhermore so during established fundraising events like CIN and Comic Relief. It's both shameful and not particularly reassuring to us that after the whole Blue Peter fiasco, all these new instances have cropped up.

Crucially, the 'Plan A' in the event of any technical problems involving phone-in competitions, must - from now and in the future - be that the phone-in is declared ceased; and presenters are then open and honest, that there has been a problem - instead of trying to 'rescue' the situation and keep it on-air by rather foolishly grabbing a member of the production team to pose as a winner, leaving genuine participants unaware.

Looks like certain staff really do need to be told as a rule that honesty and transparency towards the public comes before keeping a show running smoothly - and not the other way around. Because at least a handful of folks there have failed to understand that, sadly at the expense of others.

Indeed. There's a site that will give you the geographic (01/02) equivalents for many 08* numbers.

www.saynoto0870.com

Just why are BBC been coning it viewers. The BBC to be ment whiter than white.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHH! No "Popmaster"!

I think the time has come to ditch Raven, since this is the second scandal the show has been embroiled in. You may already know that (at least in the show's early days), the "contestants" were actually stage school children, and this was a shameful deception of the young audience watching at home who probably thought the participants were their peers. If someone wrote in wanting to be a contestant on Raven, what were they told?

And what of Raven himself - did he know about the CIN deception? If he did he's as guilty as the production team.