2007-03-07 23:56:46 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Exercise Your Brain!
ITV have pulled the plug on phone in programmes following the investigation into corruption.
Sorry! There's no Brainteaser today, so there's no on-line entry.
BrainTeaser is Five's live interactive game show based on words. In the studio, contestants attempt to win up to £3,000 by using their lexiconographic powers.
PS Smurf. What channel did you see it on? It wasn't on today.
2007-03-08 01:16:52 · answer #1 · answered by Basement Bob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most previous answers are right: Brainteaser along with a number of other programmes asks the audience to use very expensive premium 09 numbers to phone in. Brainteaser however was found to have put a member of the production team in front of the cameras and claimed he was a member of the public (he wasn’t) who had won a lot of money (he hadn’t) – that was dishonest, corrupt and might even be a criminal offence.
For information, any firm that invites calls on an 09 number receives half of the call cost from BT. So for every pound you spent phoning Brainteaser or the X-Factor 50p went to the TV Company to finance the show.
TV companies run a lot of quizzes with extremely easy answers just to encourage calls - watch GMTV and Keith Chegwin every morning giving away £10,000. GMTV earns millions of pounds a month from people who call to answer the stupidly easy quiz question. In my opinion, it is just short of a con trick.
Why do the TV Companies do it? Because advertising on TV is in serious decline. Commercial TV is no longer delivering enough audiences to advertisers. TV companies reckon to have lost revenue of around £1.5 million a week because advertisers are going elsewhere - Internet, local radio, free newspapers among others. So, they hit on the idea of financing shows from the profit from 09 phone-in shows instead. When they tell you they had 5 million calls to the X-factor, they probably made between £2.5 and £7.5 million from the viewers depending on how long they could keep viewers hanging on - and now the government has stepped in and stopped it! Well done government
2007-03-09 08:28:39 · answer #2 · answered by halifaxed 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
might have something to do with the investigation into the telephone quiz scandal, itv have pulled all of their quizzes while an investigation is carried out.
2007-03-08 08:00:40 · answer #3 · answered by Buffy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe they've realised that it's a complete waste of airtime?
2007-03-08 09:51:53 · answer #4 · answered by justasiam29 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you asking me?!! they had better not show it again,dear,or it means we are being taken for fools in this country.i fell into the trap once,but never again! i learnt they share part of the amount you are being charged when calling. is this not daylight robbery?! oh, never again!!!
2007-03-12 07:32:17 · answer #5 · answered by ajoke77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm afraid I do not have that channel.
2007-03-08 13:26:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because of the debate on ripoff phone charges.
2007-03-08 08:01:32 · answer #7 · answered by *♥* donna *♥* 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because it is teasing your brain!
2007-03-08 08:05:24 · answer #8 · answered by Curiosity 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was on
2007-03-08 07:59:38 · answer #9 · answered by Smurf 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋