Are You Fed Up With Who's On Heart?
JEFF62
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This has been dragging on for six months now. How much longer? This years Whos On Heart started in January and within a few weeks Stevie Nicks was identified as one of the voices. Since then no further correct guesses. But the dj's tell us we are so close to that jackpot being won. Really? they have been saying that since March! Seriously how much longer can this go on? One year they started to give clues because it had to be won. And the contestants all come out with the same stuff. "Stevie Nicks obviously" is a favourite thing to say then the dj will say you have got one right. Then ask to lock them in. Then comes the "Potentially you are on for the jackpot". Only they are not. They must have a cut off point or it could go on for years!
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The cut off point will be
a) when the income from the calls has covered £130K prize money (assuming no one gets the last two on the same call)
b) Heart have made a tidy contribution to their bottom line over and above the £130K prize fund
Sadly they don't give a 4x
They no longer have any teeth
Why's it a "rip off"? And what's it got to do with Ofcom?
So if there were complaints I would imagine that they would rule on the legality or otherwise of what is a networked competition
But as they wouldn't want to upset Global .. God forbid would probably do nothing anyhow even if fault was found
As far as I know though there's never been any evidence of this competition being run anything other than correctly
But it is bloody irritating !!😄
I saw it Andrew Directly above my first comment
Can't help you sorry
Well glad to know I wasn't going mad, so it seems you can't mock or be cynical about Global now on here. Not impressed DS, the mods could have least PM'd me to explain why.
It's a competition, so they aren't doing anything wrong or illegal in terms of law or compliance. It's nothing more than a follow on from the older generation of "Secret Sound" competitions, so there is nothing that OFCOM would even start to investigate.
No rules have been broken though and Heart is here to make money, for which that competion makes them a decent amount, not just in profit but social awarness.
Agreed. Can't bare Who's on Heart or STB promo.
Agreed. Can't bare Who's on Heart or STB promo on capital. It's too much, going on and on about each every link etc etc.
Exactly its the way that these competitions are constantly promoted that's so annoying. They have a lowest bid auction for a Bulgaria Holiday on Norwich 99.9 at the moment and they constantly either mention it or play the promo. I wouldn't want to go to Bulgaria if they gave it to me plus a grand spending money.
Heart did get a warning a couple of years back for playing the competition and not telling listeners they were playing across the network. Now that its made clear theres nothing wrong with the competition at all.
Heart are totally transparent about the fact it's networked and the cost of the calls.
All the same, you do wonder how long it can go on for. I can understand concerns. Surely it couldn't be allowed to run for, 5 years, say?
I know it's some stupid idea they have for this years competition. Not once has anyone said no to locking in and changed their mind!
Which one is it? Gethin Jones or Ben Miller. They should make it clear. The next few callers will be at a disadvantage. And if you just won wouldnt you ask which celebrity was the correct answer?