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UK Television Apparently Has Swindled Viewers Out of Millions And Millions of Pounds Via Crooked High-Cost Telephone Voting Schemes – Aren’t People Supposed To Be Thrown In Jail For That Much Larceny?
Philip M. Stone - July 27, 2007
The UK television telephone voting scandal has reached such proportions that even the prime minister had to address the issue in Parliament and say the industry needs to clean up its act, fast. And the first head on the bloc was the managing director of GMTV, the national breakfast time commercial franchise, that now admits that viewers had spent £35 million ($70 million, €51 million) on competitions over four years in which they had absolutely no chance to win.

 

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