BBC慈善现金被保留的£106,000

星期五， 2008年5月9日

由 Leigh Holmwood | BBC为保持£106,000今天道歉由优质率电话被做拜访大约应该给了慈善的二十二展示。

在击中电视产业的最新的丑闻在电话ins， BBC也承认下决心观察者，选择去年的英国词条为欧洲电视网歌曲比赛的BBC1展示， Scooch，误引了入投票，在电话线开始之前。在那个案件， BBC由不合格的电话做了也去慈善的£6,000。

BBC信任主席，迈克尔·利昂先生，今天说金钱现在被回报了到慈善，包括兴趣总计£123,000。

-，第一次公司的统治和管理机关施行了这样制裁，信任也定购BBC做onscreen道歉。

利昂认为问题介入了BBC全世界辅助Audiocall，提供优质率电话线给许多BBC展示。

他增加了那大约二十二展示影响了在2005年10月和2007年9月之间，虽然他拒绝命名他们。

利昂认为的新技术意味从那以后介绍了问题被解决了。

信任要求BBC主任，标记汤普森，看磨练“极少数”职员。

利昂讲清楚高级职员在BBC和全世界公司内不知道关于问题和亦不雇用了职员谁研究受影响的节目。

他补充说，他不知道为什么职员在Audiocall没有报告问题。

利昂认为： “没有法律失当，但它是失败在这些的行为职员和BBC的自己的系统。

“它是严肃的判断错误由很小数量的人和严肃的失败事情在怎样BBC控制它的PRS [优质率电话服务]和它的与观察者和选民的关系。

“这些问题不可能继续入未来，并且有将学会的教训，并且处分也许在职员之中发生”。

他补充说： “这里没有室为自满。这是组织意向在居住由最高的标准在产业”。

这些最新的电视欺骗揭示跟随给ITV £5.675m昨天优良强加的纪录由Ofcom在商业播报员的来电广播节目的丑闻。

In an email to staff, Thompson described the situation as a “serious oversight”.

But he said there was “no evidence” of any “impropriety or intention to defraud”, adding that the £106,000 represented only 1.3% of the approximately £8m raised for charity through BBC telephone votes during the relevant period.

“All the money has been paid to the charities involved, with interest,” Thompson added. “The oversight has been remedied. Clearly, this must never be allowed to happen again.”

He said that while the new incidents were “disappointing”, they were both “historical’.

“We’re confident that the measures we’ve put in place mean they won’t happen again,” Thompson added.

“The whole BBC has made enormous progress on the topic of trust over the past nine months, a fact backed up by all of our surveys of the public themselves.

“We need to go on doing everything possible to restore fully the public’s trust in us. But we’ve made real progress on that score, while delivering some spectacular creative successes and starting to make our vision of the BBC’s future a reality.”The BBC today apologised for keeping £106,000 made from premium-rate phone calls on about two dozen shows that should have been given to charity.

In the latest scandal to hit the television industry over phone-ins, the BBC also admitted that viewers of Making Your Mind Up, the BBC1 show that chose last year’s UK entry for the Eurovision song contest, Scooch, were misled into voting before phone lines had opened. In that case, the BBC made £6,000 from ineligible calls that has also gone to charity.

The BBC Trust chairman, Sir Michael Lyons, today said that the money had now been repaid to charity, including interest totalling £123,000.

The trust has also ordered the BBC to make an onscreen apology - the first time the corporation’s governance and regulatory body has imposed such a sanction.

Lyons said the issue involved the BBC Worldwide subsidiary Audiocall, which provides premium-rate phone lines to many BBC shows.

He added that about two dozen shows had been affected between October 2005 and September 2007, although he refused to name them.

Lyons said new technology had since been introduced which meant the problem had been resolved.

The trust has asked the BBC director general, Mark Thompson, to look at disciplining a “handful” of staff.

Lyons made it clear that senior staff within BBC Worldwide and the corporation did not know about the problem and nor did staff who worked on the affected programmes.

He added that he did not know why staff at Audiocall did not report the issue.

Lyons said: “There is no legal impropriety but it is a failure in the behaviour of these staff and the BBC’s own systems.

“It was a matter of serious misjudgment by a small number of people and a serious failing in how the BBC controls its PRS [premium-rate phone services] and its relationship with viewers and voters.

“These problems can’t continue into the future and there are lessons to be learned and disciplinary action may take place amongst staff.”

He added: “There is no room for complacency here. This is an organisation intent on living by the highest standards in the industry.”

These latest TV deception revelations follow the record £5.675m fine imposed on ITV yesterday by Ofcom over the commercial broadcaster’s phone-in scandal.