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 ...

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 ...

GMTV was today fined a record #2 million over rip-off phone lines. The breakfast TV station was hit by the largest ever penalty imposed by the communications watchdog, Ofcom, for misleading viewers on ...

LONDON, September 26: British morning show GMTV has received a £2-million fine from Ofcom for Broadcasting Code breaches in relation to its premium-rate phone competitions. The fine follows an ...

The broadcaster GMTV has been fined a record £2m by the media watchdog Ofcom for "gross negligence" after it repeatedly allowed viewers to enter phone-in competitions after the lines had closed. It is ...

GMTV were fined a record #2million yesterday for luring millions of viewers into entering contests when they had no chance of winning. But the shamed breakfast station made more than #20MILLION from ...

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 ...

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. GMTV has been fined a record £2million for fleecing viewers through phone-in competitions ...

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.

GMTV has been fined £2 million over misconduct in its viewer competitions. GMTV said it accepted full responsibility for the scandal Ofcom also ordered GMTV to broadcast a summary of its findings. The ...

GMTV, the UK’s morning television ITV franchisee, has been accused of ripping off viewers to the tune of £10m (US$20m) in the latest scandal to rock the nation’s call-TV industry. An investigation by ...

Callers to premium-rate phone competitions on the GMTV breakfast show have been defrauded out of millions of pounds, a BBC investigation has found. Panorama found that for the past four years, a ...