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ITV Hit With Record amp;pound;6m Phone-In Fine
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WARC
- 5/10/2008
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LONDON: UK communications regulator Ofcom has imposed a £6 million ($11.73m; �7.6m) fine on the nation's largest commercial broadcaster ITV, citing 'grave and repeated irregularities' with regard to its conduct of premium-rate phone-in programmes. In addition, the Serious Fraud Office is consider
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ITV fined record 5.7m for phone line cons
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Sunday Mirror
- 5/10/2008
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million for a string of premium rate phone-in scams that conned viewers out of 7.8million. In a stinging rebuke, watchdog Ofcom said the station had a 'total disregard' for the rules after charging viewers to enter competitions they could not win. The report said bosses breached regulations up to 85
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ITV fined £5.7m for premium rate scandal
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Digital Spy
- 5/9/2008
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ITV was today fined £5.68m for a string of scandals involving the use of premium rate phone and text services in its programmes. The largest fine of £3m was for various offences on Ant & Decâ??s Saturday Night Takeaway including picking competition winners based on where they lived and their '
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£5.67m fine for ITV over phone-in scandal
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View London
- 5/9/2008
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 ITV has been handed a £5.67 million fine by the communications regulator for a series of mistakes concerning interactive phone-ins. After a Deloitte audit commissioned by ITV chairman Sir Michael Grade uncovered 'serious editorial issues' in the broadcaster's handling of phone-in competitions, Of
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ITV fined $11m over phone-in fiasco
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Qatar Peninsula
- 5/9/2008
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LONDON � British broadcaster ITV was fined a record £5.67m (7.2 million euros, $11.1m) yesterday for misleading viewers over premium rate TV phone-in services, industry regulator Ofcom said. Britain's biggest commercial television network temporarily suspended all premium-rate interactive service
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Ofcom Hits ITV With Record Fine
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Film & Video
- 5/9/2008
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Ofcom have fined ITV £5.67 million for breaching codes of conduct in relation to viewer phone-ins. The record fine follows an investigation by the regulator into the broadcaster's most popular shows. Ofcom said in a statement: 'Ofcom has informed ITV plc this morning that it is imposing a fine tota
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Record fine for ITV
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This is Kent
- 5/9/2008
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ITV Fined $11.14 Million For Phone-In Scandal
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MocoNews.net
- 5/9/2008
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A week ago was the rumor that British broadcaster ITV (LSE: ITV) could be fined a record $7.8 million (4 million pounds) for its part in the premium phone line scandal which rocked Britain last year. It turns out that was conservativeâ??regulator Ofcom has fined it 5.7 million pounds (US$11.4 millio
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ITV incurs record £5.68 million fine
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What's On TV
- 5/9/2008
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ITV has been hit with a record £5.68 million fine by Ofcom over premium rate phone-in scandals. Ofcom said the penalty 'reflects not only the seriousness of ITV's failures but also their repeated nature'. The regulator investigated after a report found 'serious editorial issues' within three ITV pr
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ITV fined 6m over phone-in irregularities
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Financial Times
- 5/9/2008
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a new record - over 'grave' and repeated irregularities in premium-rate phone-in programmes.Further questions were raised by a report suggesting that a comedy award may have been fixed in favour of the comedy duo Ant and Dec. The Serious Fraud Office said it was considering whether to launch a full
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