LONDON -- GMTV, the ITV morning commercial broadcaster that is 25% owned by the Walt Disney Co., might have been responsible for premium phone line irregularities worth as much as £40 million.

LONDON -- U.K. media regulator Ofcom has fined commercial broadcaster GMTV a record £2 million ($4 million) for what it calls "widespread and systematic deception" in premium-rate phone-in ...

GMTV has been fined a record £2million for fleecing viewers through phone-in competitions they had no chance of winning. The broadcaster was guilty of a "widespread and systematic deception of ...

More than £3million worth in fines are set to be imposed over the GMTV phone-in rip offs which saw callers entered competitions they had no chance of winning. Opera Telecom, the phone line ...

In its March bulletin, Ofcom said GMTV had breached its broadcasting code by re-directing viewers to Lewis's website from the morning show's own web page. The ruling referred to a segment on 14 ...

Breakfast broadcaster GMTV has been fined £2m by media regulator Ofcom for failings with its phone-in quizzes. Ofcom has handed out the penalty, the highest in its history, because many viewers who ...

GMTV is planning a new morning show for Sky One that will rival ITV's This Morning programme, it has been reported.. Lorraine Kelly will front the programme, which will broadcast from 09:25 until ...

The U.K. scandal over rigged TV quizzes has claimed its first scalp. The managing director of U.K. breakfast TV station, GMTV, 25% owned by Disney, is to resign in an attempt to help "restore ...

LONDON — U.K. breakfast web GMTV is confronting a record fine of some $5.6 million over rigged phone quizzes on its shows. GMTV, owned by ITV and Disney in a 75/25 split, took an estimated $90 ...

The report also revealed that GMTV had been trying to get the fine limited to a maximum of £500,000, claiming it should be given credit for 'all that it had done' to try to remedy the situation.