Votes for John will be refunded

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olivej

19-11-2008

Originally Posted by lozwinter:
“are the bbc forgetting the whole reason behind strictly?? to raise money for children in need. if the bbc refund then they are taking the money back from them surely.”

Strictly doesnt raise money for CIN anymore

End-Em-All

19-11-2008

Originally Posted by olivej:
“Strictly doesnt raise money for CIN anymore”

Quote:
“BBC One controller Jay Hunt told journalists the BBC had "every intention of reimbursing people" who had voted for Sergeant during the series.

Money raised by calls to Strictly Come Dancing goes to Children In Need.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7737447.stm

memmh

19-11-2008

Originally Posted by End-Em-All:
“
Quote:
“BBC One controller Jay Hunt told journalists the BBC had "every intention of reimbursing people" who had voted for Sergeant during the series.

Money raised by calls to Strictly Come Dancing goes to Children In Need.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7737447.stm”

I don't see any mention of CiN in that article

Up until this series the phone vote money always went to CiN but this year, apparently, only the money from the SCD/CiN special is going to CiN.

smidgen

19-11-2008

Originally Posted by End-Em-All:
“http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7737447.stm”

Yeah, either they can't get their facts right about one of their own shows, or for some reason they have completely failed to mention the charity raising aspect throughout the whole of this series, when in the past it was mentioned and the Pudsey logo shown against the phone nos. in every single show.

I wonder which one is more likely?

smidgen

19-11-2008

Originally Posted by memmh:
“I don't see any mention of CiN in that article

Up until this series the phone vote money always went to CiN but this year, apparently, only the money from the SCD/CiN special is going to CiN.”

Oooh, it was there and now it's gone, I guess they got their fact-checkers on to it a bit late

vidalia

19-11-2008

I love the irony of the most recent comment on the BBC web page saying why is this on the BBC News website when it is not news - yet there are 46 pages of comments!

FarmLoon

19-11-2008

Quote:
“Originally posted by End-Em-All

BBC One controller Jay Hunt told journalists the BBC had "every intention of reimbursing people" who had voted for Sergeant during the series.

Money raised by calls to Strictly Come Dancing goes to Children In Need.”

Isn't this a slip? I thought the whole point was that phone votes were not allowed to be paid to a charity without the permission of the phone voters. As calls cost more when donating to a charity, it would only take one or two people to complain that they don't want to give to charity for the whole thing to be taken to Offcom again (It is Offcom who deals with this, isn't it?). Therefore no charity benefits from the phone in votes as the beeb don't want to run foul of Offcom again. If they intend to refund phone vote charges, then presumably the beeb think that they're likely to pay more in fines than if they repaid the phone charges.

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