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ITV rip-off phone-in quiz of the day – This Morning asks…

by | 26th, June 2012

ITV continues to milk its slack-jawed viewers on This Morning with Philip Schofield and smirky Holly Willoughby. In 2008, Ofcom fined ITV £5.675m for “abusing premium rate phone services in viewer competitions“. In 2007, Ofcom fined ITV’s GMTV £2m for running premium rate competitions callers had no chance of winning.

Mindful of that, complete the phrase – “each call costs no more than £1.03 from BT landlines… SMS text entries costs £1.00 plus one standard network rate message“:

“According to the daying, money makes the world go…

A. Round

B. Up

C. Down”

Correct answer: D – to hell…

NOTE:  This Morning” won Best Factual Programme in the National Television Awards 2012.



Posted: 26th, June 2012 | In: TV & Radio Comment | TrackBack | Permalink