....for misleading the public and letting people pay to vote contestants out of the house who later were allowed to go back in.
But where does the £50k go- it doesnt go back into the pockets of all the people who wasted money texting their votes does it? I wouldnt get any anyway cos I never voted or even watchd it that much Im just wondering if they got fined, where does the money go that they paid up?
2006-10-06 01:42:45 · 10 answers · asked by Georgie 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
The money goes to the government so that they can continue to watch over us!
2006-10-06 02:11:18 · answer #1 · answered by jackyjackyjackyisme 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't actually ....
Channel 4 escapes fine over 'misleading' voting twist
OUT-LAW News, 05/10/2006
Premium phone regulator ICSTIS will not fine the companies behind Channel 4's Big Brother phone voting lines even though it has deemed the voting process 'misleading'. Channel 4 admitted that it had made an 'oversight' in the competition.
Towards the end of this summer's Big Brother the broadcaster offered viewers the chance to vote back into the house competitors who had already been voted off the programme.
ICSTIS received 2,635 complaints from members of the public when the change to the programme was announced. Voters complained that they had spent money voting housemates out of the show only to see them put back in, making their vote a waste of money.
"Given that the publicly-available terms and conditions on the Big Brother website stated that: “Once a housemate leaves they forfeit any claim to the prize money”, ICSTIS concluded that the editorial change had indeed caused people to feel misled," said the ICSTIS report on its investigation into the matter.
"Channel 4 acknowledged that this had been an oversight and ICSTIS accepted that Channel 4 had not intended to mislead its viewers. On the basis that the terms and conditions had not been appropriately amended, ICSTIS found that its Code of Practice had been breached."
ICSTIS chose not to impose a fine on the companies involved because the cost of the investigation itself, which the companies have to bear, was already significant, it said. "ICSTIS decided that it would not be appropriate to order redress for complainants because the 'misleading' element of the service had not materially changed the outcome of the programme," it said.
The regulator of premium-rate phone services can only fine companies which are registered with it, the service providers hired by other companies to operate contests and other services. Any fine would actually have been levied on iTouch and Minick, who provided the systems for, respectively, the premium landline and text message voting.
An ICSTIS spokesman told OUT-LAW that Channel 4 had co-operated with the investigation and had told ICSTIS that it would cover any costs and financial penalties associated with it.
"In reaching its decision, ICSTIS accepted that Big Brother was an editorially-inventive show, and that the programme’s much-publicised statement that 'Big Brother reserves the right to change the rules at any time' clearly indicated to viewers that they should expect twists and turns in how the show developed," said the ICSTIS ruling.
"However, the unprecedented number of complaints for this type of service, combined with the undoubted strength of feeling shown by the complainants, clearly indicated that voters genuinely felt that they had been misled over this twist," it said.
2006-10-06 08:49:52 · answer #2 · answered by mancunian_nick 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Same thing when those telemarketing companies or whoever gets fined by the FCC for calling after people tell them to take them off their list. I dont think the consumer who was being bothered in the first place gets this money.
In your scenario I would think they would use the fine to reimburse those who had paid to vote.
2006-10-06 08:51:32 · answer #3 · answered by Amy >'.'< 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i dont understand why people are in uproar about it this year - i gather its because of nikki being allowed back into the house.
a couple of years ago john tickle was voted back into the house and i dont remember people moaning then like they are doing now. i never vote on those type of things anyways - just see them as a waste of money
2006-10-06 08:52:30 · answer #4 · answered by alrightyyy_then 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not fair - I spent a fortune voting Grace and Nikki out!!!
2006-10-06 08:57:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It should be divided among the residents who got cheated.
2006-10-06 08:47:14 · answer #6 · answered by loufedalis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont know but the should be fined
2006-10-06 08:50:08 · answer #7 · answered by halloweenpumpkinuk 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its a pr fine so that oftel can be seen to be doing their job
2006-10-06 08:44:26 · answer #8 · answered by Monkeyphil 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
tis all a fecking fix i tells ya!
2006-10-06 08:51:02 · answer #9 · answered by itweb 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
money probably goes towards funding another immigrant coming into the country.
2006-10-06 08:45:10 · answer #10 · answered by arrrthelifeofapirate 3 · 4⤊ 4⤋