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BBC chiefs cash in after year of turmoil
From The Independent. Posted July 9 2008, 12.00am
Senior executives at the BBC have been given pay rises of more than £100,000 each after a year in which the corporation was dogged by phone-in scandals, job cuts, and revelations about editorial "fakery". (more)

Watch Kelly Brook in Sky+ ad
From Media Guardian. Posted July 1 2008, 11.00am
Ad for Sky+, created by WCRS, in which model-turned TV presenter Kelly Brook calls the personal video recorder service a 'revelation' (more)

Another Tamil Tigers TV station goes off the air - report
From Media Network Weblog. Posted June 22 2008, 12.31pm
The Asian Tribune, published by the World Insitute for Asian Studies, reports that Tharishanam TV (Revelation), a Tamil pay channel of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam operating from London, is to go off the air from today ownwards. The  Tribune says that “the LTTE’s international propaganda arm is expected to suffer a severe blow when [...] (more)

Press apology over fire death revelation
From Hold the Front Page. Posted May 15 2008, 9.20am
Man learns of family tragedy through local newspaper, baby death mix-up ? and more resolved cases from the PCC (more)

MacDonald's Alcohol Revelations Now University Reading
From allmediascotland - Spike. Posted March 25 2008, 8.55am
Trinity Mirror’s local weekly Ayrshire titles, the Ayrshire Post, Kilmarnock Standard and Irvine Herald, may have dispensed with the services of its freelance business editor, but Murdoch MacDonald is unlikely to find himself under-employed. While the newspapers’ business... (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)

Springer show strengthens contestant's marriage
From Digital Spy. Posted January 19 2008, 12.04pm
A man who confessed to an affair for a new TV show says the revelation strengthened his marriage. (more)

ZEE Muzic to launch 'Best of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa...'
From Biz Asia. Posted November 14 2007, 8.10am
ZEE Muzic continues to milk the network's flagship show 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007', weeks after it culminated on ZEE TV. A new series the 'Best of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007' is being launched later this month, which will feature behind the scenes drama of 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007'. ZEE Muzic business head Irshwin Balwani said, "With Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Hungama (on ZEE Muzic), we had captured the backstage reality of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. It was the number one show across all music channels. The Best of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa will relive the best moments of the popular show and again bring in the forefront some amazing talent." Roy added, "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2007 Hungama was my first foray into television production and a very successful one at that. This show is interspersed with the finalists performances onstage and candid talks, with many a startling revelation." The new show will be hosted by Shraddha Nigam where she will chat with the 11 finalists about their experiences. Related links: 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa - Challenge '07' winner crowned ZEE TV to air mega 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' weekend ZEE TV and STAR Plus fight - neck and neck! ZEE TV's 'Sa Re Ga Ma Pa' gains record ratings (more)

In full: BBC Trust statement on editorial breaches
From Digital Spy. Posted September 21 2007, 9.16am
Following yesterday's revelations about four serious editorial breaches in BBC programmes, the BBC Trust clarifies its position. (more)

BBC dissects TV fakery
From Media Guardian. Posted August 7 2007, 1.00am
8am: The fallout from the BBC's viewer deception revelations is beginning to make its mark on staff. By Tara Conlan. (more)

BBC?s Byford tells MPs of phone-in scandal shock
From Media Network Weblog. Posted July 24 2007, 4.57pm
BBC Deputy Director-General Mark Byford told MPs he had been “stunned” by the revelations in the phone-in scandal that has rocked the Corporation. ”What has happened is utterly unacceptable,” he said in an appearance before the Culture, Media and Sport Committee today. Three senior staff members have been suspended after the BBC admitted last week putting fake [...] (more)

BBC establishes Editorial Standards Board
From Digital Spy. Posted July 20 2007, 4.28pm
The corporation is to establish an Editorial Standards Board which will oversee the BBC's response to this week's revelations of editorial breaches. (more)

Trust angry over charity appeal lies
From Media Guardian. Posted July 19 2007, 1.00am
The BBC Trust has vowed to get tough with management following the new revelations that viewers were misled in competitions. By Owen Gibson. (more)

BBC confirms senior suspensions
From Media Guardian. Posted July 19 2007, 1.00am
2.45pm: The BBC has gone ahead with suspensions of 'senior people' following yesterday's revelations. By Tara Conlan and Leigh Holmwood. (more)

BBC faces fresh deception rows
From Media Guardian. Posted July 17 2007, 1.00am
5.15pm: The BBC is bracing itself for a slew of revelations about viewer deceptions involving at least two phone-in shows and daytime antiques series Flog It!. By Leigh Holmwood. (more)

Blairs get personal on television show
From Digital Spy. Posted July 2 2007, 10.07am
Tony and Cherie Blair share personal revelations on a new one-off television documentary. (more)

Narinder Kaur exploits 'Big Brother' secrets
From Biz Asia. Posted May 13 2007, 2.51pm
Former 'Big Brother' contestant Narinder Kaur has written a book about the dark side of the hit Channel 4 reality TV show. In the shocking book titled 'Big Brother: The Inside Story', Narinder tracks down ex-housemates from the show and reveals the misery many of them suffered after their exposure on TV. "There are now around 100 former housemates," she explains, "some drifting around aimlessly, some the walking wounded, some who went back to their old lives as best as they could, and some, well...who knows?" Narinder, 35, discovered, amongst many other revelations, that Sam Heuston – who had a fling with Blue's Duncan James - was so depressed after her eviction that she slashed her wrists in front of her father. Makosi Musambasi received death threats from Zimbabwel and BB6 winner Anthony Hutton had his nose broken in a club. Big Brother: The Inside Story by Narinder Kaur is published by Virgin Books on 24th May. The new series of 'Big Brother' starts on Channel 4 at the end of this month. (more)

Thompson: TV industry must earn trust
From Digital Spy. Posted March 18 2007, 10.19pm
BBC chief Mark Thompson says the television industry must regain trust following the phone-in revelations. (more)

Biddy Baxter 'appalled' by Blue Peter phone-in row
From Media Guardian. Posted March 15 2007, 12.00am
10.15am: Blue Peter legend Biddy Baxter was 'dumbstruck' at the revelation of a rigged phone-in on the BBC kids' show. By Steve Busfield. (more)

Patrick Barkham meets Britain's first televangelist
From Media Guardian. Posted March 2 2007, 12.00am
Christian cable station Revelation TV has won its battle to be allowed to raise funds on air. Patrick Barkham spends a day on set. (more)

Will The Apprentice be fired?
From Media Guardian. Posted July 28 2006, 1.00am
8am: The revelation that BBC2 has signed up for only one more series has fuelled speculation The Apprentice's future may be in doubt. By Ben Dowell. (more)

Product placement: Now you see it...
From The Independent. Posted December 12 2005, 12.00am
In theory, at least, the worlds of television and advertising should have been "rocked" by revelations last month that companies regularly pay to promote their products covertly on BBC programmes in clear contravention of the corporation's rules on product placement. The suggestion that products appear in programming for commercial reasons is a severe blow to the credibility and integrity of the BBC. (more)

Matthew Norman: Media Diary
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
HAS THERE ever been a more rewarding week for fans of the British press's genius for synthesising misplaced moral outrage? It's hard to know where to start with the reaction to those trivial revelations about BBC phone-in competitions and the Queen's frightful bate with Annie Liebovitz. But begin somewhere we must, so let's kick off with a lecture about the Beeb's need to regain public trust from the Daily Mirror, the paper that perpetrated the single biggest fraud in media history by promoting a spot-the-ball competition perfect in every respect other than the absence of the ball; and whose erstwhile stock-market pundit did time for a form of insider dealing. (more)

You can trust me, I'm a press journalist
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
Has the debate about trust in the British media ever had so much resonance? Last week's revelations about deceptions in broadcasting only contributed to a debate that has been simmering for some time, and which encompasses all media ? including new media as well as television and print. (more)

Television Standards: Trained? Who cares as long as you're cheap
From The Independent. Posted January 1 1970, 12.59am
Before the finger was pointed at his own channel, the ITV executive chairman (and former chairman of the BBC) Michael Grade, in part blamed the embarrassing revelations of audience deception in BBC programmes on under-trained, inexperienced young people working in the industry. (more)