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McLean quits GMTV for 'Loose Women'
From Digital Spy. Posted July 21 2008, 7.19pm
Weather presenter Andrea McLean quits GMTV after 11 years to host Loose Women. (more)

My Life In Media: Ben Shephard
From The Independent. Posted June 30 2008, 12.00am
Ben Shephard, 33, is a television presenter who is best known for his work with GMTV. He can also be seen, alongside Denise van Outen, fronting ITV1's primetime series Who Dares Sings. A staunch West Ham supporter and gym fanatic, Shephard is a father of two and has been married to his wife Annie for four years. He lives in south-west London. (more)

GMTV Team Makes Two Appointments
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted June 9 2008, 7.53am
A journalist recently with Edinburgh-based radio station, talk107, has become one of two, new recruits at the company providing Scottish output for GMTV. Elspeth Badger - pictured, second from right - joins as a video journalist after being with talk107 since February last year. ... (more)

O'Sullivan Signing off from GMTV Slot
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted April 25 2008, 8.27am
The launch editor of GMTV's Scottish news opt-out is signing off this morning, five months after the service took over from stv. Kirsteen O'Sullivan, who presented the central Scotland bulletins from the Glasgow base of production company, Macmillan Media, is leaving to work in... (more)

My Life In Media: John Stapleton
From The Independent. Posted April 21 2008, 12.00am
John Stapleton, 62, is the presenter of GMTV's The News Hour. He celebrates 10 years hosting the programme with co-presenter Penny Smith today. Over a 40-year career, Stapleton has interviewed every prime minister since James Callaghan, and reported from the Falklands, the Middle East, Northern Ireland and El Salvador for the BBC's Panorama and Newsnight. In the 1980s he co-presented Watchdog with his wife of 30 years, Lynn Faulds Wood. The couple live in Surrey and have one son, Nick. (more)

Mirror titles pay out to GMTV presenter Kate Garraway
From Media Guardian. Posted April 10 2008, 10.09am
GMTV presenter Kate Garraway has won a high court apology and 'substantial' damages over false allegations in the Sunday Mirror. By Tara Conlan (more)

GMTV presenter launches libel battle against Mirror group
From Press Gazette. Posted March 20 2008, 12.00am
Television presenter Kate Garraway has launched a legal battle for libel damages of £250,000 over stories in the Sunday Mirror and Daily Mirror. (more)

GMTV to relaunch weekdays in 2008
From Digital Spy. Posted March 18 2008, 2.06pm
GMTV will relaunch its weekday shows this year to try to regain an audience lead over BBC Breakfast. (more)

GMTV Goes Smooth
From Radio Today. Posted March 11 2008, 1.12pm
London’s Smooth Radio has signed breakfast TV star Fiona Phillips to present its Sunday afternoon show from Easter weekend. (more)

GMTV host goes Smooth
From Radio Today. Posted March 11 2008, 1.12pm
London’s Smooth Radio has signed breakfast TV star Fiona Phillips to present its Sunday afternoon show from Easter weekend. (more)

GMTV escapes fraud investigation
From Media Guardian. Posted March 10 2008, 12.03pm
The Serious Fraud Office has said it will not investigate the GMTV phone-in scandal, which cost viewers £35m. By Leigh Holmwood (more)

GMTV's Kate Garraway sues Sunday Mirror over love-life revelations
From Press Gazette. Posted February 12 2008, 12.00am
GMTV presenter Kate Garraway is suing the Sunday Mirror after it published allegations about her relationship with Anton Du Beke, her partner is the television series Strictly Come Dancing. (more)

GMTV's Kate Garraway sues Sunday Mirror over love-life claims
From Press Gazette. Posted February 12 2008, 12.00am
GMTV presenter Kate Garraway is suing the Sunday Mirror after it published allegations about her relationship with Anton Du Beke, her partner is the television series Strictly Come Dancing. (more)

'GMTV' hosts annoyed over shake-up?
From Digital Spy. Posted January 21 2008, 10.19am
The stars of GMTV are annoyed at a shake-up of the presenting rota, says a report. (more)

GMTV chief Scammell resigns
From Media Guardian. Posted January 8 2008, 10.42am
GMTV managing editor John Scammell has resigned from his post following allegations that he was found asleep at his desk. By Maria Esposito (more)

'GMTV' bans Lorraine Kelly's ad plans
From Digital Spy. Posted November 11 2007, 11.02am
Lorraine Kelly is banned from appearing in an advertising campaign for ASDA. (more)

Adele Silva to report for 'GMTV'
From Digital Spy. Posted November 7 2007, 9.44am
Former Emmerdale star Adele Silva is joining GMTV as a travel reporter. (more)

Fireworks, explosions, everything under the Sun: Heather Mills tears into media in GMTV interview
From Media Guardian. Posted October 31 2007, 11.49pm
Mr Brown came to the studio with points to prove. Heather Mills arrived with scores to settle. The only sadness was that they didn't appear together. (more)

ZEE TV to telecast Eastern Eye awards
From Biz Asia. Posted October 22 2007, 6.04pm
ZEE TV will be highlighting the crème of the Asian business world by exclusively broadcasting this year's Eastern Eye Asian Business Awards on Friday 26th October at 22:00. The most prolific event to mark the UK Asian business calendar, Eastern Eye Asian Business Awards 2007 took place at The London Hilton, Park Lane on Tuesday 8th May 2007, in the presence of HRH The Duke of York. The prestigious awards were presented at a star studded gala dinner with a lavish VIP champagne reception, and more than 1,000 celebrities, VIPs, public figures, MPs and millionaires were in attendance, including last year’s Business of the Year Award-winner, Mike Jatania, Tom Singh of New Look, Lord Waheed Ali and Lord Paul. A wealth of A-list mainstream, British Asian and international talents made their way down the red carpet before the onlooking media. The line-up of world class entertainment on the evening featured 22-year old singing supremo and protégée of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Keedie, and classic Bhangra outfit and veterans of the International Asian music circuit, Heera. This year’s entertaining hosts were GMTV presenter Clare Nasir and actor Nitin Ganatra. Awards presented on the night were: Young Achiever of the Year, Hamptons International Newcomer of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, Community Award, and Business of the Year. Related link: Eastern Eye Asian Business Awards returns (more)

SFO seeks phone-in scandal details
From Financial Times. Posted October 20 2007, 3.00am
The Serious Fraud Office has asked Ofcom for information about the premium-rate phone-in scandals at GMTV and ITV, raising the prospect of criminal investigations into... (more)

Serious Fraud Office reviews evidence in ITV phone-in scandal
From The Independent. Posted October 20 2007, 1.30am
GMTV and ITV are facing the prospect of criminal investigations into a string of television phone-in scandals, after ITV chairman Michael Grade said he would have resigned if he had been chief executive when the broadcaster deceived viewers. (more)

Is participation TV dead?
From Digital Spy. Posted September 30 2007, 10.56am
After a week of record fines for GMTV's phone-ins, is the future bleak for participation TV? (more)

Ant and Dec become weather presenters
From Digital Spy. Posted September 27 2007, 2.54pm
Ant and Dec become weather presenters at GMTV for the morning as part of a TV challenge. (more)

GMTV fined £2m for phone-in deception
From Financial Times. Posted September 27 2007, 3.21am
Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator, imposes the record fine on the TV company after finding it had let viewers take part in competitions where winners had already been chosen (more)

GMTV fined £2m over phone scam
From Rapid TV News. Posted September 27 2007, 12.32am
UK breakfast TV operator GMTV has been fined £2m (US$4m) by regulator Ofcom over its premium rate competition breaches. (more)

British TV company fined £2m for phone-in scandal
From Media Network Weblog. Posted September 26 2007, 1.06pm
British media regulator Ofcom has fined morning TV programme contractor GMTV £2 million ($4.03 million)  for letting viewers enter competitions they had no chance of winning, the regulator said today. Ofcom said GMTV had breached rules relating to fair conduct and its responsibility to control service arrangements. It said GMTV had picked competition finalists before phone lines [...] (more)

Ofcom Fine GMTV £2million
From Merry Media. Posted September 26 2007, 12.58pm
GMTV have been fined £2million by television regulator Ofcom for misconduct in its premium rate phone competitions. It is the largest financial penalty to be imposed against a broadcaster.. (more)

Ofcom Fine GMTV £2million
From Merry Media. Posted September 26 2007, 10.58am
GMTV have been fined £2million by television regulator Ofcom for misconduct in its premium rate phone competitions. It is the largest financial penalty to be imposed against a broadcaster.. (more)

Record fine for TV phone-in company
From Financial Times. Posted September 25 2007, 3.00am
The company that operated premium-rate telephone services for GMTV yesterday became the first to be fined the maximum penalty of £250,000 by the industryregulator... (more)

Clive Crouch takes helm at GMTV
From Media Guardian. Posted September 21 2007, 1.00am
GMTV has appointed sales and marketing director Clive Crouch acting chief operating officer, effectively putting him in charge of the ITV breakfast franchise. By Chris Tryhorn. (more)

Ofcom slaps £2.7m fine on GMTV over phone-ins
From The Guardian. Posted September 16 2007, 12.50am
Breakfast television company GMTV is expected to be fined around £2.7m this week by media regulator Ofcom. (more)

Kelly claims she will never quit
From Digital Spy. Posted August 16 2007, 3.24pm
GMTV presenter Lorraine Kelly claims she will never quit her job. (more)

GMTV Director of Phone-Ins Resigns
From Merry Media. Posted July 31 2007, 11.28pm
Kate Fleming, the Director of GMTV's phone-in competitions, has resigned in the wake of the recent scandal surrounding the breakfast broadcaster.. (more)

GMTV Announce New Phone Measures
From Merry Media. Posted July 25 2007, 3.11pm
GMTV have announced a new package of measures in a bid to restore the viewers confidence in its competitions. Paul Corley, Managing Director of GMTV has also announced that he is resigning.. (more)

GMTV boss resigns over quiz row
From BBC News. Posted July 25 2007, 7.30am
GMTV's managing director resigns as the TV firm tries to restore viewers' confidence after complaints of deception. (more)

Paul Corley to leave GMTV
From Media Guardian. Posted July 25 2007, 1.00am
9.15am update: GMTV managing director Paul Corley is to leave in the wake of phone-in quiz scandal at the ITV breakfast broadcaster. By Mark Sweney. (more)

Ecclestone's daughter axed from GMTV
From Digital Spy. Posted July 13 2007, 11.54am
Billionaire Bernie Ecclestone's daughter Tamara is axed from GMTV for failing to show up. (more)

Johnny Depp Tells of Keith Richards on GMTV
From Merry Media. Posted May 21 2007, 4.00pm
Johnny Depp will talk of his working relationship with Keith Richards in an interview with Kate Garraway on GMTV which will go out on 24th May.. (more)

GMTV latest to offer on-demand video online
From Press Gazette. Posted May 15 2007, 2.42pm
After The Sun and the Mirror, breakfast TV station GMTV has become the latest news provider to launch an online video portal. (more)

An absolutely free quiz for GMTV’s early birds
From The Times. Posted April 27 2007, 12.00am
Waking up in the morning is difficult enough for most of us, but early starts are supposed to be routine at GMTV, and so the time of day cannot explain why ITV’s breakfast broadcaster seems to have behaved so utterly cluelessly when it comes to the handling of its phone-ins. Credit to Panorama on Monday for uncovering a new scandal, in which shortlists were drawn up about an hour before phone lines closed, but the BBC One programme (with its baffling, jerky camerawork), was still somehow not hard enough on GMTV, which seems to have handled the running of its own competitions incompetently. So here, instead, is a competition for the breakfast broadcaster. (more)

GMTV Involved in Phone Scam
From Merry Media. Posted April 23 2007, 4.43pm
Millions of callers to GMTV were encouraged, over a four-year period, to enter premium-rate phone competitions when they could not win. Panorama will report on the apparent scam tonight on BBC One.. (more)

GMTV accused of £10m phone-in scam
From Media Guardian. Posted April 23 2007, 1.00am
Viewers in GMTV phone votes were cheated out of an estimated £10m a year, according to an investigation by BBC1's Panorama. By Dan Bell (more)

Broadcasters increase online budgets
From Media Guardian. Posted March 23 2007, 12.00am
11am: Channel 4, GMTV and Teletext have all increased their online budgets for 2007. By Mark Sweney. (more)

Caroline Feraday Joins BBC South East Today
From Merry Media. Posted March 16 2007, 12.15am
Former GMTV, BBC Radio Five Live and LBC presenter and reporter Caroline Feraday took to the airwaves for first time today in her new role as a reporter for BBC South East Today.. (more)

Greg Dyke rules out chances of becoming head of ITV
From The Times. Posted November 25 2006, 12.00am
Greg Dyke, the former Director-General of the BBC, will concede that he has no chance of succeding to the vacant chief executive position at ITV in an interview with GMTV that is due to be transmitted tomorrow.... (more)

GMTV Editor Quits after Lorraine Kelly Gaffe
From Merry Media. Posted September 21 2006, 9.13pm
GMTV Producer Benedetta Pinneli quit GMTV after sending a text message to presenter Lorraine Kelly saying "I hate LK".. (more)

Daughter of Harrods Boss Joins GMTV
From Merry Media. Posted September 11 2006, 5.04pm
Camilla Al Fayed - the daughter of Harrods Boss Mohamed Al Fayed - has joined GMTV as a fashion expert reporter on the programme LK Today.. (more)

'Party Chick' Camilla Al Fayed to report on fashion shows for GMTV
From The Independent. Posted September 11 2006, 12.00am
After spending much of the summer titillating Fleet Street gossip writers with her prodigious appetites for shopping and partying, the daughter of the Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed is set to knuckle down to work as a TV presenter. (more)

Lorraine Kelly Lives Childhood Dream
From Merry Media. Posted September 8 2006, 3.04am
GMTV presenter Lorraine Kelly was given a ride in a fighter jet for the RAF Leuchars Airshow.. (more)

New policy on violence footage launched
From Press Gazette. Posted September 7 2006, 12.00am
ITV News and GMTV have introduced a new policy on the use of footage depicting violent scenes after viewers complained to Ofcom over the broadcasters’ use of CCTV images showing a knife attack on two students. (more)

New policy on violent footage launched
From Press Gazette. Posted September 7 2006, 12.00am
ITV News and GMTV have introduced a new policy on the use of footage depicting violent scenes after viewers complained to Ofcom over the broadcasters’ use of CCTV images showing a knife attack on two students. (more)

Jackie Brambles Pregnant
From Merry Media. Posted September 6 2006, 11.06pm
GMTV presenter Jackie Brambles is pregnant and plans on giving up her telly job to concentrate on being a full time mum. The 39 year old is married to David Tod and had her first baby in April - a boy, who she named Stanley. Brambles, who was born on the Isle of Arran has said that her second child will be due around the time of her 40th birthday. She currently works as a reporter for GMTV after giving up the role as Hollywood Reporter in the states 18 months ago so she could return to the UK.. (more)

ITV West life correspondent lets viewers control the news agenda
From Press Gazette. Posted July 20 2006, 12.00am
ITV West has appointed former GMTV reporter Ellie Barker as its “life correspondent”, a newly created position that sees her tackling local issues suggested by the public. (more)

Eamonn Holmes: My Life In Media
From The Independent. Posted July 10 2006, 12.00am
he host of BBC1's National Lottery programme, Jet Set, and Sky News' Sunrise, Eamonn Holmes, 46, grew up in Belfast. He worked for Ulster Television before spending 12 years on the GMTV sofa alongside Anthea Turner and Fiona Phillips. He also hosts weekend shows on Magic FM and BBC Five Live and has written his autobiography, This is My Life, which divulges the secrets of his acrimonious relationship with Turner. He has four children and lives in Surrey with his partner Ruth Langsford, with whom he has guest-presented This Morning. (more)

Myleene Klass: My Life in Media
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
Myleene Klass, 28, has joined CNN International as host of its new cinema show The Screening Room. Having come to fame as a member of the reality TV pop group Hear'Say, she has built a media career in which she has presented for GMTV, ITV1 and Classic FM and appeared alongside Twiggy in advertising for Marks & Spencer. She lives in south London with her fiancé, Graham Quinn. (more)

GMTV ditches company that ran its phone-ins
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
GMTV has cancelled its contract with Opera Interactive Technology, the company which runs its phone-in competitions, after a BBC investigation claimed that callers had been cheated out of millions of pounds. (more)

Phone-in scandal claims its next victim as GMTV chief quits
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
The scandal of fake television phone-in competitions claimed another casualty yesterday when the managing director of GMTV, Paul Corley, announced that he is resigning. (more)