LONDON — GMTV, the U.K. breakfast TV station part-owned by Disney, is the latest Brit broadcaster to be accused of ripping off audiences in a premium-rate phone scam, this one to the tune of £ 10 ...
GMTV, the ITV breakfast station in which Disney owns a 25% stake, has been fined £2 million ($4 million) by U.K. media regulator Ofcom for “widespread and systematic deception” in phone-in quizzes.
LONDON -- The U.K. call TV scandal claimed its first scalp Wednesday after the head of breakfast broadcaster GMTV -- 25% owned by the Walt Disney Co. -- said he will resign over the issue. By Mimi ...
LONDON -- GMTV, the ITV morning commercial broadcaster that is 25% owned by the Walt Disney Co., might have been responsible for premium phone line irregularities worth as much as £40 million. By Mimi ...
LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - British media regulator Ofcom has fined morning TV programme GMTV 2 million pounds ($4.03 million) for letting viewers enter competitions they had no chance of winning, the ...
Ofcom has fined GMTV £2 million for misconduct in its premium rate phone competitions. This follows the £250,000 fine premium rate regulator ICSTIS levied on GMTV's phone service provider Opera ...
LONDON, July 25 (Reuters) - The managing director of British broadcaster GMTV is to quit following a string of phone-in competition scandals that have tarnished the reputations of leading businesses ...
"We are planning a re-launch of our Monday-Friday programming in 2008 following extensive research with our viewers," said GMTV's plan for the year's programming. "Although we did fall marginally ...