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[~bex~]

The BBC has announced that all competitions running across all its services are to be suspended as part of an "action plan" to address breaches of editorial standards.

Mark Thompson, the corporation's director general, delivered a report to the BBC Trust today after an audit of output since January 2005 uncovered "further serious breaches of editorial standards" in BBC programming.

The breaches uncovered by the audit and reported to the Trust were: Comic Relief - in March, where a member of the production team posed as a caller in an on-air competition; TMi - in September 2006, a member of the production team again posed as a winning caller; Sport Relief - in July 2006, a contingency plan was put into effect in which a production team member posed as a caller; further, the competition would have been impossible to run as it was described on air; Children in Need - in November 2005, the name of a fictitious winner was read out on air; The Liz Kershaw Show - multiple times in 2005 and 2006, a competition was presented as-live on a pre-recorded show; White Label - a winner was announced on the World Service despite no winning entries actually having been submitted.

The incidents were reported to the Trust in addition to the previous high-profile Blue Peter phone-in scandal and a recent incident in which a misleadingly-edited cut of an RDF-produced documentary about Her Majesty The Queen was shown to journalists by BBC One controller Peter Fincham.

The Trust said it was "deeply concerned that significant failures of control and compliance within the BBC" had "compromised the BBC's values of accuracy and honesty."

"We are not ready to draw a line under the editorial failures reported to us today," the Trust added.

In a statement, Thompson said: "Nothing matters more than trust and fair dealing with our audiences. The vast majority of the 400,000 hours of BBC output each year, on television, radio and online, is accurate, fair and complies with our stringent editorial standards."

Thompson also made a broadcast to BBC staff today in which he said: "Our values and our editorial guidelines must take precedence over everything else. There is no excuse for deception. I know the idea of deceiving the public would simply never occur to most people in the BBC. We have to regard deception as a very grave breach of discipline which will normally lead to dismissal. If you have a choice between deception and a programme going off air, let the programme go. It is far better to accept a production problem and make a clean breast to the public than to deceive."

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a66553/bbc-suspends-all-competitions.html

I wonder what this means for 6 weeks of summer?

[Jono]

I would have said, no, but taking into account that Liz Kershaw's show is affected it might do.

I imagine they'll have different plans for Global Gathering and Ibiza anyway, which are next on the list, so they might let the Tenerife competition run till Friday.

[~bex~]

I've just read the BBC News article on the matter, which says "All phone-related competitions on BBC TV and radio will cease from 0000 BST on Thursday, while interactive and online competitions will be taken down as soon as possible."

It might end up with them just having today's winner going I suppose. And if they still wanted to do Life's a beach/Life's a bitch, they could always do it with the best two callers from today.

[shaz]

They said at midnight it will be stopped on radio. Radio 1 mislead us last week because Scott knew what he was doing for six weeks of summer on Friday when it was obvious it was a pre record.

[Jono]

Comes as a bit of a blessing for Six Weeks Of Summer, I'm sure many listeners will say they didn't want to hear these competitions anyway.

[~bex~]

They said at midnight it will be stopped on radio. Radio 1 mislead us last week because Scott knew what he was doing for six weeks of summer on Friday when it was obvious it was a pre record.

I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to here, but it doesn't sound like you're talking about a phone in competition, and that's what the problems are about.

[shaz]

It is still misleading listeners like with the Queen video

[~bex~]

Comes as a bit of a blessing for Six Weeks Of Summer, I'm sure many listeners will say they didn't want to hear these competitions anyway.

I agree, it's not exactly my favourite feature lol. But at the same time, it's not going to look so great with the fact that they've been plugging for ages about how you can win a free holiday, and now they're going to ahve to say, sorry you can't any more! Also, I find it pretty funny that this morning when Moyles was doing the competition (or it might have been during Car Park Catchphrase, I'm not sure) he was making loads of jokes about the blue peter scandal.

[DC]

i turned off edith for 10 mins becuase of a competition, mabie people wont get so bored easily for a while.

[Jono]

The life is a bitch and the life is a beach stuff may well have been added into Friday's pre-record after the Chris Moyles show. It wasn't viable for Scott to do his whole show live because the planes left at 3pm that day.

Either way it's going to be an interesting period for the station - Carpark Catchphrase, Seven Song Shuffle, Six Weeks of Summer - all affected.

[~bex~]

The life is a bitch and the life is a beach stuff may well have been added into Friday's pre-record after the Chris Moyles show. It wasn't viable for Scott to do his whole show live because the planes left at 3pm that day.

Either way it's going to be an interesting period for the station - Carpark Catchphrase, Seven Song Shuffle, Six Weeks of Summer - all affected.

Plus City City Bang Bang, that quiz Trevor Nelson does, all the chart show competitions, Edith's movie competition. And doesn't Zane do a competition to win tickets to gigs? (I don't really listen to Zane much so I'm not totally sure)

When I first read the story I thought of 6 weeks of summer, but it's only once I really thought about it that I realised how much the station will actually be affected.

[DC]

the dance shows too, jules does the guestlist still i think.

[Jono]

The investigation into BBC output is continuing and Mr Thompson said it was "possible further historical incidents could emerge".

He noted that competitions on Radio 1, Radio 2 and local BBC stations had also been "poorly organised and breached guidelines".

http://www.24dash.com/communities/24629.htm

[~bex~]

http://www.24dash.com/communities/24629.htm

Lol, 3 and In immediately springs to mind!!!

[Jono]

Lol, 3 and In immediately springs to mind!!!

Haha, Andy Parfitt brushes that under the carpet pretending that never happened...

Those that just involve voting, such as BBC1's Saturday night show Dance X, are excluded."

I get the feeling we'll be doing some sort of voting for the competition winners from next week.

[~bex~]

Newsbeat: "6 weeks of summer will be on hold from midnight"

[simon38]

whiley and bowman do it all the time when their shows have been pre-recorded they still asking for people to txt the show,i know it's only 10 pence but if there is no chance of your txt being read out it's a con.

[~bex~]

whiley and bowman do it all the time when their shows have been pre-recorded they still asking for people to txt the show,i know it's only 10 pence but if there is no chance of your txt being read out it's a con.

I know what you're saying, but it's only really a con if they say something like "text in and I might read it out", which is never really said.

[E*F*4L]

the presenters at radio-1 don't seem to be the type to rip off listeners & i wouldn't have thought it would affect the competition really ?

whiley and bowman do it all the time when their shows have been pre-recorded they still asking for people to txt the show,i know it's only 10 pence but if there is no chance of your txt being read out it's a con.

when the show is recorded & i have listened to it, i have never heard them say text in except for a feature that is long running, as when the show is live, they ask for listeners to phone/e-mail/text in quite often

[Riz]

the presenters at radio-1 don't seem to be the type to rip off listeners & i wouldn't have thought it would affect the competition really ?

Those innocent Blue Peter preenters didnt seem the type to rip off kids. But they did.

[Jono]

It's safer for them to suspend all of them, rather than picking out just a few departments.

[Jono]

Here's a list of things the papers claim has been dropped from R1 and what else would be affected:

BBC Radio 1 - Chris Moyles’ 'Car Park Catchphrase’

BBC Radio 1 - 'Truck of Luck’

BBC Radio 1 - Scott Mills 'Rate My Karaoke’ competition. Texts and calls 25p. “At least 10p” from every text/call went to Comic Relief

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/19/nbbc619.xml

I originally thought it was things that had been fixed!

[~bex~]

Here's a list of things the papers claim has been dropped from R1 and what else would be affected:

BBC Radio 1 - Chris Moyles’ 'Car Park Catchphrase’

BBC Radio 1 - 'Truck of Luck’

BBC Radio 1 - Scott Mills 'Rate My Karaoke’ competition. Texts and calls 25p. “At least 10p†from every text/call went to Comic Relief

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/19/nbbc619.xml

I originally thought it was things that had been fixed!

Yeh I saw that, and was a bit confused when I first read it. Mostly because Truck of Luck and Rate My Karaoke were aaaaaages ago!!!

[Jono]

KEN BRUCE and Chris Moyles ran their regular competitions today, despite the BBC ban on phone-ins.

But, instead of the public phoning in, the contestants were BBC colleagues.

Jeremy Vine and traffic presenter Lynne Bowles took part in Bruce’s regular Radio 2 quiz Popmaster. The usual prize of a digital radio was scrapped.

Earlier in the week, all phone-in competitions were cancelled by the BBC after a series of deceptions were revealed.

“We're going to bring Popmaster back today,” Bruce told his listeners.

“We're not going to have members of the public taking part in it. Instead we're going to have BBC staff taking part in it. Explain that to me.

“But we're allowed to do that. No prizes and you may not phone in for it.”

A Radio 2 spokeswoman explained: “Ken has had a lot of correspondence from listeners upset that they weren't getting their daily fix of Popmaster.

“Listeners like to play along with the quiz at home. Members of the public can't enter by phone so we have brought it back with BBC staff.”

On Radio 1, DJs JK and Joel were the contestants for a competition on the Chris Moyles Show.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2001320029-2007330628,00.html

[Riz]

Where did they get the winners to go on holiday with JK and Joel? Are they people from earlier in the week?