BBC慈善現金被保留的￡106,000

星期五， 2008年5月9日

由 Leigh Holmwood | BBC為保持￡106,000今天道歉由優質率電話被做拜訪大約應該給了慈善的二十二展示。

在擊中電視產業的最新的醜聞在電話ins， BBC也承認下決心觀察者，選擇去年的英國詞條為歐洲電視網歌曲比賽的BBC1展示， Scooch，誤引了入投票，在電話線開始之前。在那個案件， BBC由不合格的電話做了也去慈善的￡6,000。

BBC信任主席，邁克爾・利昂先生，今天說金錢現在被回報了到慈善，包括興趣總計￡123,000。

-，第一次公司的統治和管理機關施行了這樣制裁，信任也定購BBC做onscreen道歉。

利昂認為問題介入了BBC全世界輔助Audiocall，提供優質率電話線給許多BBC展示。

他增加了那大約二十二展示影響了在2005年10月和2007年9月之間，雖然他拒绝命名他們。

利昂認為的新技術意味從那以後介紹了問題被解決了。

信任要求BBC主任，標記湯普森，看磨練「極少數」職員。

利昂講清楚高級職員在BBC和全世界公司內不知道關於問題和亦不雇用了職員誰研究受影響的節目。

他補充說，他不知道為什麼職員在Audiocall沒有報告問題。

利昂認為：「沒有法律失當，但它是失敗在這些的行為職員和BBC的自己的系統。

「它是嚴肅的判斷錯誤由很小數量的人和嚴肅的失敗事情在怎樣BBC控制它的PRS [優質率電話服務]和它的與觀察者和選民的關係。

「這些問題不可能繼續入未來，并且有將學會的教訓，并且處分也許在職員之中發生」。

他補充說：「這裡沒有室為自滿。這是組織意向在居住由最高的標準在產業」。

這些最新的電視欺騙揭示跟隨給ITV ￡5.675m昨天優良強加的紀錄由Ofcom在商業播報員的來電廣播節目的醜聞。

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.