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ITV & Five suspend all premium rate competitions (March 2007)

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Stuart
Brekkie Boy posted:
True - but it works both ways, the people who do get through know they've got through. IMO it's just doing random selection a stage earlier and if I phoned through to be told I hadn't been selected, that would be the end of it.

Then again though, I'm not in the mindset where I'd ring up in the first place.

True, and neither am I - except the time I came home at 3am so hammered I tried it - but that's neither here nor there.

Why can't every caller be entered, simply for calling. When you buy a lottery ticket you don't have it validated at the vendor - how would we react if they said "sorry, your numbers can't go through, you weren't the one hundredth entry that minute" Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes
BR
Brekkie
StuartPlymouth posted:
Brekkie Boy posted:
True - but it works both ways, the people who do get through know they've got through. IMO it's just doing random selection a stage earlier and if I phoned through to be told I hadn't been selected, that would be the end of it.

Then again though, I'm not in the mindset where I'd ring up in the first place.

True, and neither am I - except the time I came home at 3am so hammered I tried it - but that's neither here nor there.

Why can't every caller be entered, simply for calling. When you buy a lottery ticket you don't have it validated at the vendor - how would we react if they said "sorry, your numbers can't go through, you weren't the one hundredth entry that minute" Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes



Aaahhh - but it's not a lottery! technically! Wink
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A former member
but it is, in some seince as it a lotto if you get thourgh
BR
Brekkie
A bit about the Brainteaser situation on Digital Spy:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a44276/weekend-spy-the-endemol-is-nigh.html

A second audit is due to take place this week.
PT
Put The Telly On
The Mail on Sunday have been digging their heels in again today. Notably a two-page spread talking about one of the hosts, Zoe French, who was asked to pose as a caller on The Great Big British Con...I mean...Quiz and that most horrific of all cons...Cash Call that is broadcast from Budapest! Dodgy dodgy dodgy! Apparently the guy who runs Cash Call from his "apartment" is looking for other UK channels to use his services.

Obviously I don't know how true this all is but a note to all TV companies who are offered a premium rate quiz show from Budapest... DECLINE! Its nothing more than disgusting TV to be honest.

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444437&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=
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A former member
From Media Guardian...


11.50am: Ofcom has ruled that Quiz Call on Channel Five and a show on the Quiz Call channel has breached regulations. More follows ...
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
onetrickpony posted:
From Media Guardian...

11.50am: Ofcom has ruled that Quiz Call on Channel Five and a show on the Quiz Call channel has breached regulations. More follows ...


An episode of Quiz Call on Channel Five in September last year was censured after a presenter described a "difficult mathematics" game as "easy".

Ofcom ruled that this would have effected whether people chose to play and ruled the episode was not conducted fairly.

Ofcom also ruled against the Word Association game on the Quiz Call channel, which was owned by Channel 4 at the time of the complaint in September.

Two viewers complained about the quiz in which they were asked to name "things in Australia", with one of the answers flagged up by the presenter as "Alice something" with the word "Alice" followed by seven asterisks on the screen.

However, the answer turned out to be "Alice Springs Camel Cup" which no viewer got correct.

Ofcom ruled that the correct answer was "almost impossible" for callers to have considered.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2043204,00.html

24 days later

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A former member
Here WE GO again!

Fromm BBC new website:

Quote:
Premium rate phone regulator Icstis is to investigate after an ITV quiz show missed 10,000 text answers.

During Saturday's Gameshow Marathon on ITV 1, viewers were told correct answers to a simple question would be invited to enter a prize draw.

About 10,000 of these £1 text messages were not entered into the draw.

ITV has apologised and said those affected would be entered in another prize draw. Icstis said no emergency action was necessary.

Viewer concerns

The broadcaster said the problem was isolated and had been picked up by its own monitoring processes.

Premium rate phone line regulator Icstis is toughening up regulations after doubts emerged over how some quizzes and phone-ins were conducted.

BBC's Saturday Kitchen, Channel 4's Richard and Judy, and ITV programmes The X-Factor and I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! have faced accusations they misled viewers.

Last month independent auditors Deloitte gave Gameshow Marathon a clean bill of health as part of a channel-wide review.


Has anyone learnt anything???
JB
JasonB
Aren't the new rules for quiz shows supposed to be in place by now?
JO
john04
£250k Richard and Judy fine.
BR
Brekkie
john04 posted:



Ridiculous - what does a monetary penalty achieve?

First, the treasury quietly swipe 17.5% VAT from each of these premium rate phone calls and remain completly untouched by the scandal - and now they'll rake in the fine money too!


If anyone should be fined it should be ICSTIS for seemingly fail to regulate the market they exist to monitor in the first place!
RE
Reboot
Brekkie Boy posted:
If anyone should be fined it should be ICSTIS for seemingly fail to regulate the market they exist to monitor in the first place!

So, exactly what are Icstis supposed to do? They basically have two options - fine them, or withdraw their licence (Effectively shutting them down. What else can they - and in your view, they should - do "to regulate the market"? They cannot monitor every call-in show/programme/channel/sex line/etc 24/7 - the manpower needed for that (and accompanying cost) would be COLOSSAL.

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