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Issue number 162 - 19/07/2010 (July 2008)

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GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
davidlees posted:
The number of complaints and fines against the 'babe' channels in recent times is quite worrying. I wonder if someone or some organisation is running an orchestrated campaign against them.


A certain Mr L might be.

No, that's too obvious. Let's just call him Simon.
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
Gavin Scott posted:
davidlees posted:
The number of complaints and fines against the 'babe' channels in recent times is quite worrying. I wonder if someone or some organisation is running an orchestrated campaign against them.


A certain Mr L might be.

No, that's too obvious. Let's just call him Simon.

If that's a clue in the style of 'The Great Big British Quiz' then it could be anyone, as it doesn't necessarily include that name or letter due to an error in word calculations. Wink
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Charlie Wells posted:
Gavin Scott posted:
davidlees posted:
The number of complaints and fines against the 'babe' channels in recent times is quite worrying. I wonder if someone or some organisation is running an orchestrated campaign against them.


A certain Mr L might be.

No, that's too obvious. Let's just call him Simon.

If that's a clue in the style of 'The Great Big British Quiz' then it could be anyone, as it doesn't necessarily include that name or letter due to an error in word calculations. Wink


Indeed its a Quiz Call clue.

The answer is "Test Card Chris, Mrs".
ST
Stuart
I still don't get the answer to the "How Many Cats" quiz on Five:

Ofcom posted:
On 16 December 2006 , the programme featured a puzzle in which viewers were shown a graphic of the cat with the following question:

“15 cats meet 3 cats each. Those cats all meet 25 cats and they all go for a curry! How many cats?”

The answer was later broadcast as being 2,641. No contestant correctly identified the answer....which was actually 2,461.


Perhaps someone could explain Wink Wink
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
StuartPlymouth posted:
I still don't get the answer to the "How Many Cats" quiz on Five:

Ofcom posted:
On 16 December 2006 , the programme featured a puzzle in which viewers were shown a graphic of the cat with the following question:

“15 cats meet 3 cats each. Those cats all meet 25 cats and they all go for a curry! How many cats?”

The answer was later broadcast as being 2,641. No contestant correctly identified the answer....which was actually 2,461.


Perhaps someone could explain Wink Wink


I'll be happy to. Dial my 900 number.
ST
Stuart
Gavin Scott posted:
I'll be happy to. Dial my 900 number*.

Ahh, so you don't know either. I don't feel quite so daft now! Laughing
*I presume you meant 090 Wink

At the risk of boosting their egos, perhaps I could ask one of the Metropol 'scientific intelligencia' to provide the calculations?
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
StuartPlymouth posted:
Gavin Scott posted:
I'll be happy to. Dial my 900 number*.

Ahh, so you don't know either. I don't feel quite so daft now! Laughing
*I presume you meant 090 Wink

At the risk of boosting their egos, perhaps I could ask one of the Metropol 'scientific intelligencia' to provide the calculations?


Well that makes a change from being called "the clique".
AG
AxG
davidlees posted:
Thought people might be interested to read the latest (I am a couple of weeks late posting this) Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin as it contains a number of methods used to solve those "Add all the numbers" and "How many X?" style games that were popular during the phone quiz heyday.

The number of complaints and fines against the 'babe' channels in recent times is quite worrying. I wonder if someone or some organisation is running an orchestrated campaign against them.

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AN
Andrew Founding member
There's some gems on there this week

Firstly, the radio quiz show, how many times have you heard a DJ say to a quiz winner that they would be sent 'some stuff'

I also like the formal way they describe everything "Television X included in its service so-called ‘babe’ programming, i.e. live
programmes using female presenters (described as ‘babes’)"

The various Great Big British Quiz scandals are typical (I'm sure they'd be reported across the tabloids if it had been ITV Play rather than Five)

Which flag is wrong where the Japan flag had been altered by 5% is a good one

I still don't get the answer to 'How many cats?'!
SD
sda|
I won £100 on the great big british quiz once, only because the presenter was giving out obscure clues and references that no one seemed to get. I never bothered to enter the picture quizzes, far too fixed!

(The answer was "Sly and the Family Stone")
BR
Brekkie
My favourite, from XFM I think:

Quote:
During the competition, the presenter, Rick Shaw, asked the questions in a 40 second period. When the 40 seconds had elapsed, he announced that the contestant could have a prize for every correct answer given and proceeded to ask what prizes they would like. Rick Shaw then agreed to each of the contestant’s prize requests, irrespective of their absurdity (e.g. “a girlfriend”,“a private jet” and “a pint of milk”) . However, there was at no time any intention of these prizes being awarded – instead, each contestant was sent a selection of CD and DVDs.
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
davidlees posted:
Thought people might be interested to read the latest (I am a couple of weeks late posting this) Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin as it contains a number of methods used to solve those "Add all the numbers" and "How many X?" style games that were popular during the phone quiz heyday.


Same old problems, same old complaints. Thank goodness all that's left of this is the Quiz Call strand on late night Channel 5.

Mind you, the question "15 cats meet 3 cats each. Those cats all meet 25 cats and they all go for a curry! How many cats?”" with a "correct" answer of 2461 is beyond me. The scary thing is they didn't have the right answers to their own quizzes.

Quote:
The number of complaints and fines against the 'babe' channels in recent times is quite worrying. I wonder if someone or some organisation is running an orchestrated campaign against them


My money's on Mediawatch-UK, formally National Viewers' and Listeners' Association set up by Mary Whitehouse. They apparently want possession of "extreme pornography" aka that sold in licensed sex shops to be punishable by three years in prison. It's director removes material from its entry on Wikipedia that he doesn't agree with. Apparently.

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