BBC Children In Need - an undeserving charity?

[Agent Orange]

I never watch the BBC 'live'. That fact doesn't stop the BEEB sending its henchmen found to my home, banging loudly on doors and windows at all hours, demanding to be given entry to search through my property.

 

The BBC, and everything it touches, is pure poison.

 

It's the law..... get over it! As for your rants. You are deviating away from the subject, Children in Need.

[Magilla]

I never watch the BBC 'live'. That fact doesn't stop the BEEB sending its henchmen found to my home, banging loudly on doors and windows at all hours, demanding to be given entry to search through my property.

 

But you do watch, and have stated in the past that you think other people should pay for your viewing. You are one of the parasites you so love to hate, a hypocrit!

 

The BBC, and everything it touches, is pure poison.

 

Hahaa, like I said, you're your own worst enemy. With people like you opposing the BBC, they have nothing to worry about.

[INTERVIEWER]

BBC banked £106,000 of Children in Need phone-in cash

 

The BBC has admitted that it banked £106,000 that should have gone to causes such as Children in Need and Comic Relief in the latest phone-in scandal to affect the corporation.

 

Viewers who contacted fundraising phone-ins but whose calls were received just after the lines had closed were still charged for the call and a BBC subsidiary kept the money.

 

Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman of the BBC Trust, which uncovered the practice, expressed regret for what he described as “a failure in terms of the behaviour of staff and of the BBC’s own systems”. He added: “This did not help the BBC or the people we serve.”

 

Adding to the corporation’s embarrassment was a further revelation that it left out tens of thousands of phone-in votes in last year’s British heat of the Eurovision Song Contest, although it did not affect the result of the competition, which was won by Scooch.

 

One of the programme’s presenters, Sir Terry Wogan and Fearne Cotton, called mistakenly for votes before the phone lines had opened and although callers were charged, their votes were not counted. Calls received outside the voting period on the programme amounted to 38 per cent of the total.

 

The Eurovision heat took place on an error-strewn night for the programme, which involved viewers voting on who should represent Britain in the annual competition. At the end of the show, Sir Terry mistakenly announced the wrong winner and had to be corrected by his co-presenter.

 

Yesterday, Sir Michael ordered the corporation to hand over the £106,000 to the charities, plus £6,000 to cover the Eurovision mistake and added interest — resulting in a total payment of £123,000. “There may be disciplinary action. There is no room for complacency here,” Sir Michael said, and promised that the BBC would make an on-air apology to viewers.

 

The telephone calls were handled by a BBC subsidiary, Audiocall, part of its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. It organised fundraising phone-in competitions on programmes including Sports Personality of the Year, Strictly Come Dancing and How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? Calls typically cost 25p, with half the money going to charity, but in some cases viewers were charged as much as £1.50.

 

Keeping all the money raised from late calls occurred between October 2005 and August 2007. There is no suggestion that anybody benefited personally from keeping the money, although the practice was known only to a small number of the corporation’s employees within Audiocall and uncovered only as part of a review of all phone-ins by the business consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers.

 

The BBC has admitted deceiving viewers by running phone-ins to programmes such as Blue Peter and Comic Relief in which callers had no chance of winning.

 

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article3901709.ece

 

Audiocall is just one of many companies totally owned by BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial division. How many BBC Worldwide companies benefit from the BBC TV licence fee?

[INTERVIEWER]

The BBC, and Audiocall (a 100 per cent BBC owned company) did not choose to reveal that they were keeping large sums of money intended for 'Children In Need' charities - it was left to an outside body to do so.

 

Remember this when watching 'Children In Need' tonight...

[Agent Orange]

BBC banked £106,000 of Children in Need phone-in cash

 

The BBC has admitted that it banked £106,000 that should have gone to causes such as Children in Need and Comic Relief in the latest phone-in scandal to affect the corporation.

 

Viewers who contacted fundraising phone-ins but whose calls were received just after the lines had closed were still charged for the call and a BBC subsidiary kept the money.

 

Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman of the BBC Trust, which uncovered the practice, expressed regret for what he described as “a failure in terms of the behaviour of staff and of the BBC’s own systems”. He added: “This did not help the BBC or the people we serve.”

 

Adding to the corporation’s embarrassment was a further revelation that it left out tens of thousands of phone-in votes in last year’s British heat of the Eurovision Song Contest, although it did not affect the result of the competition, which was won by Scooch.

 

One of the programme’s presenters, Sir Terry Wogan and Fearne Cotton, called mistakenly for votes before the phone lines had opened and although callers were charged, their votes were not counted. Calls received outside the voting period on the programme amounted to 38 per cent of the total.

 

The Eurovision heat took place on an error-strewn night for the programme, which involved viewers voting on who should represent Britain in the annual competition. At the end of the show, Sir Terry mistakenly announced the wrong winner and had to be corrected by his co-presenter.

 

Yesterday, Sir Michael ordered the corporation to hand over the £106,000 to the charities, plus £6,000 to cover the Eurovision mistake and added interest — resulting in a total payment of £123,000. “There may be disciplinary action. There is no room for complacency here,” Sir Michael said, and promised that the BBC would make an on-air apology to viewers.

 

The telephone calls were handled by a BBC subsidiary, Audiocall, part of its commercial arm, BBC Worldwide. It organised fundraising phone-in competitions on programmes including Sports Personality of the Year, Strictly Come Dancing and How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? Calls typically cost 25p, with half the money going to charity, but in some cases viewers were charged as much as £1.50.

 

Keeping all the money raised from late calls occurred between October 2005 and August 2007. There is no suggestion that anybody benefited personally from keeping the money, although the practice was known only to a small number of the corporation’s employees within Audiocall and uncovered only as part of a review of all phone-ins by the business consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers.

 

The BBC has admitted deceiving viewers by running phone-ins to programmes such as Blue Peter and Comic Relief in which callers had no chance of winning.

 

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article3901709.ece

 

Audiocall is just one of many companies totally owned by BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial division. How many BBC Worldwide companies benefit from the BBC TV licence fee?

 

Just a hunch, but being part of the BBC commercial division.... that kind of indicates they make money for the BEEB, not take licence payer's money.

[INTERVIEWER]

New TV phone-in scandal: BBC kept £100,000 of Children In Need cash for itself

 

The BBC kept more than £100,000 viewers had pledged to charity for itself. Staff knowingly withheld money that should have gone to causes including Children in Need and Comic Relief. In another hammer blow to TV's reputation, the corporation has been ordered by its own ruling body, the BBC Trust, to apologise for the scandal on air.

 

Staff at the BBC only revealed what had happened when City auditors PWC checked the books after the last series of phone-in scandals in the autumn. Yesterday the BBC Trust admitted that about £106,000 had been wrongfully withheld and would now be given to charity. With interest, the total to be donated is more than £123,000. A further £6,000, which Audiocall would normally have kept for its own costs, will also be handed to charity after the Making You Mind Up fiasco. Yesterday's revelations angered charities which fear they will damage donors' trust in future telethons and phone votes.

 

Adam Rothwell, of Intelligent Giving, said: "It is obviously immoral to behave in that way, to consciously say we could have given this money to charity, but we are going to keep it." He added: "It is not the BBC that are going to lose out, it will be the charities who they have been trying to help that are going to be worse off after this.

 

"People are not going to want to phone in anymore their confidence will be really hit by this breach of trust. Megan Pacey, of the Institute of Fund-Raising, said: "The BBC has risked damaging the trust and confidence that the public have in charitable appeals. "Sadly, it is the beneficiaries of these BBC appeals that are likely to suffer in the event that donations decrease."

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-565090/New-TV-phone-scandal-BBC-kept-100-000-Children-In-Need-cash-itself.html

[INTERVIEWER]

The BBC - branded "immoral" and "disgraceful" by UK charities - only gave back the large sums of money donated by viewers, and intended for charity work (including 'Children In Need') after being exposed by an outside auditor.

 

This is very revealing about the true nature of the Corporation.

[INTERVIEWER]

EXCLUSIVE: TERRY WOGAN'S WONGA

 

And in 1988 the Daily Mirror exposed another of his money-spinning sidelines.

 

At the time, he was a silent partner in luxury car-hire firm Motorvation. One of its biggest clients was the Wogan show - sometimes its limo bill topped £2,000 a week. Motorvation also ferried stars to and from the BBC studios for the 1987 Children In Need event.

 

Sir Terry told the Mirror at the time: "There was nothing secret or underhand about the business. Motorvation got work from the BBC along with many other similar firms because their quotes are competitive, they are efficient and diligent."

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2007/03/06/exclusive-terry-wogan-s-wonga-115875-18711401/

 

'Children In Need' has proved to be very profitable for some BBC employee's...

[INTERVIEWER]

Just a hunch, but being part of the BBC commercial division.... that kind of indicates they make money for the BEEB, not take licence payer's money.

 

Audiocall, a BBC Worldwide company, is paid for its services (on some occasions this involved taking money for the BBC that should have gone to charity) out of the BBC TV licence fee.

 

The BBC, a publicly funded organisation, outsourcing some of its operations to private companies owned solely by another division of the Corporation - BBC Worldwide. And paying them for their services from funding obtained through the TV licence fee.

 

Why is this so difficult to grasp?

[Magilla]

The BBC - branded "immoral" and "disgraceful" by UK charities - only gave back the large sums of money donated by viewers, and intended for charity work (including 'Children In Need') after being exposed by an outside auditor.

 

This is very revealing about the true nature of the Corporation.

 

Indeed, it reveals that the BBC have independant auditors, who spotted a mistake and that the BBC acted on that mistake (according to your post above).

 

Your posts are far more revealing about your desperate nature and misrepresentation of reality to your own ends than anything about the BBC.