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April 23rd, 2007
6:42 am
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Breakfast TV company GMTV have been quick to respond to claims that there phone in competitions have offered entrants no chance of winning. In a special announcement GMTV say they are “shocked” by the accusations of irregularities regarding their competitions. However, they go on to say that they recently had comnmissioned an independent review of [More Details]
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April 18th, 2007
9:26 pm
News
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According to a report in The Sun ITV have been hit with another phone vote scandal. This time the problem occurred with Vernon Kay’s Gameshow Marathon on 14th April when viewers were invited to win prizes worth £25000. However 10000 viewers did not receive a confirmation text and were not included in the prize draw.
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March 15th always sees a flurry of St Patrick related competitions with Guinness and trips to Dublin on offer, but rarely are there competitions for St David, St Andrew or St George. This year though Bombardier are running a number of promotions to promote St George’s Day (that’s on April 23rd by the way!).
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In September 2007, the Gambling Act 2005 which comprehensively updates existing gambling laws that are several decades old will be implemented. According to the Department for Culture Media and Sport the act has three main aims (1) Keeping gambling crime free (2) Making sure that gambling is fair and open and (3) Protecting children and [More Details]
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April 7th, 2007
9:32 am
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CompEx 2007 takes place on Saturday 28th April in Whipton, Exeter. Places are already full and up to 90 eager compers will be spending the day enjoying competitions, raffles, a sit-down 2 course buffet lunch plus of course chat and gossip about competitions.
If you’re attending then you will have a “Lucky Entry” ticket and this [More Details]
ICSTIS, the premium rate services regulator, has today issued tough new rules to boost consumer trust and confidence in Quiz TV services. The new measures, which will come into force in four weeks’ time, will give viewers a better understanding of their chances of getting through to programmes, as well as giving them clearer information [More Details]
As part of our Loquax Blog we intend to ask websites why they run competitions and what they get from them. The idea is to help compers understand the viewpoint of a site running competitions and get to know the promoters. First up for interview is a good friend of Loquax, Prezzybox.com. We’ve had the [More Details]
If you’re a fan of Dragon’s Den then you’ll be aware of the Isis Puzzle. The creators were after a £200,000 cash injection for 25% of their business from the Dragons, but despite an offer of £200,000 for half of the business, the owners of Isis left the den without their money. This hasn’t deterred [More Details]
