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Premium rate phone-in saga: ITV Play Channel Axed

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

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SC
scottishtv Founding member
623058 posted:
SO no one here is impliling the following:

Why is STV Still broadcasting the "watch to win" segments?

as ITV have withdraw all types of this programme????

I just stating this Rule does not apply to STV as its Not ITV:


No. No-one is implying that at all.

I was just pointing out how ridiculious some of these premium rate things are getting. And, yes, I think we are all very aware of your final point - most of us probably were never in any doubt that that wasn't the case.
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A former member
Ant posted:
scottishtv posted:
About time they put an end to this sort of thing. Here's tonight's question:

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/royroll_.jpg

You're KIDDING?


so... this is not the case then with this?
then SORRY!
BR
Brekkie
Quit with this STV argument please!

STV can decide whether or not they're part of this review - and ITV are not suspending programmes until TOMORROW, meaning anything on STV tonight would be unaffected even if they did decide to go along with ITV's review.
JS
Janner south west
i hope this doesn't lead to an increase of ads in between programmes to cover the cost. Confused ITV can't cut anymore services... they Don't have any!! Laughing however i'm sure good old ITV will find a loop hole in the regs somewhere! Laughing
PT
Put The Telly On
scottishtv posted:
About time they put an end to this sort of thing. Here's tonight's question:

http://www.gorillaenterprises.co.uk/upload/uploadFiles/royroll_.jpg


Oh that is taking the p!ss!

Well the DEBBIE KING SHOW (thats right folks, the first question for £50 was "The Debbie ____ Show has started tonight") is another PlayDJ style webcam-style, piss-poor sound load of junk.

Please make it stop, make the bad people go away.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Janner south west posted:
i hope this doesn't lead to an increase of ads in between programmes to cover the cost. Confused ITV can't cut anymore services... they Don't have any!! Laughing however i'm sure good old ITV will find a loop hole in the regs somewhere! Laughing


The quizzes haven't been banned. There is so much wrong information being produced around this news story. Many seem to think it only involved ITV Play

This news really has generated high quality comment hasn't it, besides a few decent posts, many seem to either not understand it, going off at some strange tangent, or are giving strange one liners
IS
Inspector Sands
Connews posted:
They say they are in conversations with GMTV... I thought they would not be affected, isn't GMTV a separate entity?


Presumably that is why they are in conversations!

Quote:

And what about text your pictures etc. in the regions... affected??


They're not competitions and they don't usually use premium rate numbers (I assume) so i doubt they'd be involved
AN
Ant
Yes I know STV isn't affected by this ruling. I was talking in a general sense.

And 623058 I know ITV don't own STV.
PC
p_c_u_k
This'll be a big story for the ITV News Channel.

Oh wait...
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A former member
at least BBC is adverstiting Dacing on ice
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A former member
p_c_u_k posted:
This'll be a big story for the ITV News Channel.

Oh wait...


Laughing Lets say ITV decided to axe all competitions for good, and decide ITV Play is too much hassle, is there a slight chance of the News Channel returning?
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
It's interesting that this investigation is only affecting ITV as wasn't Big Game TV one of the first channels to be exposed for this sort of thing (or similar)... and IIRC they operate out of 200 Grays Inn Road as well.

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