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Digital TV News · 27-01-10, 01:20 PM

Winning a national television award can mean a lot for a commercial channel such as ITV, especially when the high profile win would attract more advertisers, which are the life blood of the industry.The BBC is accusing ITV of having a hand in fixing the outcome of the National Television Awards. This accusation mainly concerns [...]

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TheCoder · 27-01-10, 03:58 PM

oh ffs !

Everybody knows all these awards are fixed. Just look at the way various soaps seem to take it in turn to pick up awards. Nobody actually watches these things so of course its a fix.

tbh, I always though the "awards" were simply an excuse for various people to get together and self congratulate each other for making crap. I cant imagine anybody actually ever takes such things seriously, even the advertisers have to be more savvy than to fall for that !

Anyway, why are the BBC complaining about attracting advertisers ?

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Digital TV News Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,397 Thanks: 0 Thanked 8 Times in 8 Posts	Were TV Awards fixed in ITV?s favour? Winning a national television award can mean a lot for a commercial channel such as ITV, especially when the high profile win would attract more advertisers, which are the life blood of the industry.The BBC is accusing ITV of having a hand in fixing the outcome of the National Television Awards. This accusation mainly concerns [...] More: Were TV Awards fixed in ITV?s favour?

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TheCoder Underground Crew Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Undrground Posts: 2,112 Thanks: 15 Thanked 1,690 Times in 932 Posts	Re: Were TV Awards fixed in ITV?s favour? oh ffs ! Everybody knows all these awards are fixed. Just look at the way various soaps seem to take it in turn to pick up awards. Nobody actually watches these things so of course its a fix. tbh, I always though the "awards" were simply an excuse for various people to get together and self congratulate each other for making crap. I cant imagine anybody actually ever takes such things seriously, even the advertisers have to be more savvy than to fall for that ! Anyway, why are the BBC complaining about attracting advertisers ? Last edited by TheCoder; 27-01-10 at 04:03 PM.

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