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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.
GMTV executives were fully aware that their breakfast programmes were taking premium-rate entries to their phone-in competition after the point at which it was possible to win. Bosses at the ...
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.
Read our privacy notice. GMTV has been fined a record £2million for fleecing viewers through phone-in competitions they had no chance of winning. The broadcaster was guilty of a "widespread and ...
GMTV regular Michael Underwood and actress Debra Stephenson will also appear, with Stephenson presenting the TV review slot. The show air at 8.35am on Friday July 27. Arnold has appeared daily on ...
LONDON — U.K. breakfast web GMTV is confronting a record fine of some $5.6 million over rigged phone quizzes on its shows. GMTV, owned by ITV and Disney in a 75/25 split, took an estimated $90 ...
And the three wives-to-be taking part in GMTV's Battle Of The Brides competition ... and Emma Kingshott, 27, from Guildford, bravely removed their clothes on live TV this morning in the unseasonal ...
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 £ ...
Before its revamp last year, GMTV topped 1.5m on a regular basis. Later in primetime, coverage of England's first Euro 2012 qualifying match scored 6.09m (27.2%) on ITV1, and 571k (2.5% ...
Breakfast broadcaster GMTV has been fined £2m by media regulator Ofcom for failings with its phone-in quizzes. Ofcom has handed out the penalty, the highest in its history, because many viewers who ...
ITV has paid £18 million (E19.7m) cash for Disney's 25 per cent stake in GMTV. The acquisition forms part of ITV's strategy to focus on its core activities and will allow closer integration between ...
Phillips, who used to get up at around 3am for her shifts presenting ITV breakfast show GMTV between 1997 and 2008, told Woman&Home Magazine: “I ask myself why I got this dreadful disease.