Record fine over TV quiz phone-in
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The company behind the Richard and Judy TV quiz phone-in scandal is fined Â£150,000.
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Keel-hauled outfit suffers biggest-ever settlement An unnamed international media firm has agreed to pay a record fine of â¬2.5m ($3.46m) for being found to have "significant shortfalls in software licenses".â¦
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Premium rate phone-in competitions will be gradually reintroduced to the BBC in January.
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Channel Four is fined Â£1.5m by Ofcom for misconduct involving phone-in competitions on Richard and Judy and Deal or No Deal.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a record total of $1.2 million in fines against 169 Fox Television Network affiliates for airing indecent material during
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Some BBC executives are likely to be suspended while reviews are held into fake phone-ins.
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The public will be asked whether television cameras should be permanently allowed into English and Welsh courts for the first time today.
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Inform, educate and rip off The BBC has suspended all phone-in competitions across its television, radio, internet and interactive services following a damning internal inquiry into editorial failures.â¦
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Home Office gives dunce-bombers a victory after all Updated British terror-plods will be given real-time access to the massive camera network operated in London to support the Congestion Charge, it has been reported.â¦
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Text alert service digs itself a hole A text alert service for doggers has been fined Â£20,000 by regulator ICSTIS for breaches of the premium-rate code, including signing up punters without their knowledge and failing to respond to "stop" messages.â¦
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ICSTIS investigates The company behind Channel 4's daytime telly show Richard and Judy is being quizzed by regulators over the way competitors for the show's "You Say, We Pay" quiz are selected from a premium-rate phone line.â¦
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One phone call and one letter can set the record straight.
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"It is right that we are open with the public when we have fallen short and that we demonstrate that we take this very seriously indeed."  The British Broadcasting Corp. said Wednesday it was suspending all phone-in contests and interactive quizzes after an investigation exposed several rigged competitions.The BBC, which has been battered by revelations about bogus contests and doctored footage, said an internal inquiry found that 'a small number of production staff ... have passed themselves off as viewers and listeners.'BBC Director-General Mark Thompson said seven such cases had been found.'We must now swiftly put our house in order,' he said. Read more
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Breakfast broadcaster GMTV is fined Â£2m by media regulator Ofcom for failings with its phone-in quizzes.
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Ofcom fines channel Â£300,000 for breaches of broadcasting code in phone-in quiz Brainteaser.
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States with restrictions or bans on recorded political phone calls:
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Who needs that much? Anyone who wants to record a week's worth of TV shows.