LONDON -- U.K. media regulator Ofcom has fined commercial broadcaster GMTV a record £2 million ($4 million) for what it calls "widespread and systematic deception" in premium-rate phone-in ...
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.
The U.K. scandal over rigged TV quizzes has claimed its first scalp. The managing director of breakfast TV station GMTV, 25% owned by Disney, will resign in an attempt to “restore trust” in the ...
The Sunday Programme was GMTV's political programme. It launched on 16 October 1994 as a replacement for Sunday Best, which was GMTV's original Sunday morning magazine. The programme aired between ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 1994, Top of the Morning was replaced with the GMTV-produced Quarter to Nine. In June 1994, Kelly went on maternity leave, returning in November 1994 to do a mother and baby slot. This led to her ...
Eamonn Holmes and Anthea Turner were thrust together to host GMTV in 1994 - but it was far from a match made in heaven. The pairing instead triggered a 11-year feud that saw Eamonn accuse his co-star ...