World News Network
Thursday, 15 May 2008
 
Just one day after ITV was landed with a record fine over its misuse of premium rate phone lines, the BBC has been forced to apologise over money raised during television phone-ins which was not paid to the charities it was intended for. The BBC is to make an on-air apology after it was discovered that £106,000 from phone-ins which should have gone to charitable causes instead went in to the coffers of the company running the phone lines - a subsidiary of the BBC's commercial arm BBC Worldwide. In a separate case, an editorial failing on Eurovision: Making Your Mind Up 2007, the BBC show which...
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