http://karlos3.vox.com/library/posts/tags/scandal/page/1/ dont think about all those things you fear - just be glad to be here en Vox Fri, 09 May 2008 17:16:58 +0100 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss scandal http://karlos3.vox.com/library/post/bbc---charity-fraud-scandal.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(karlos) http://karlos3.vox.com/library/post/bbc---charity-fraud-scandal.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://karlos3.vox.com/library/post/bbc---charity-fraud-scandal.html?_c=feed-rss-full Fri, 09 May 2008 17:16:58 +0100 <p>The BBC today apologised for keeping £106,000 made from premium-rate phone calls on about two dozen shows that should have been given to charity.In the latest scandal to hit the television industry over phone-ins, the BBC also admitted that viewers of Making Your Mind Up, the BBC1 show that chose last year&#39;s UK entry for the Eurovision song contest, Scooch, were misled into voting before phone lines had opened. In that case, the BBC made £6,000 from ineligible calls. The BBC Trust has also ordered the BBC to make an onscreen apology - the first time the corporation&#39;s governance and regulatory body has imposed such a sanction. Lyons said the issue involved the BBC Worldwide subsidiary Audiocall, which provides premium-rate phone lines to many BBC shows. He added that about two dozen shows had been affected between October 2005 and September 2007, although he refused to name them. </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://karlos3.vox.com/library/post/bbc---charity-fraud-scandal.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398cada81000300e398f7f9e40004?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> news charity bbc scandal fraud