Play TV on TV3

Patdusty2010

When did Play TV get taken off the air? I was just flicking through the channels and noticed its not on TV3 anymore.

Was it taken off the air as it was a complete scam?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

More because it was crap and people somehow realised it and stopped phoning in.

There was a thread about this - possibly in the TV forum - about a month ago.

m@cc@

Patdusty2010 wrote: »

When did Play TV get taken off the air? I was just flicking through the channels and noticed its not on TV3 anymore.

Was it taken off the air as it was a complete scam?

Read the charter.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Was pretty much a scam.
Still got €2000 outta them though

Patdusty2010

Justin Magnificent Cognac wrote: »

Was pretty much a scam.
Still got €2000 outta them though

Did you, how did you manage that?? I never thought they actually gave away prizes to real people.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Patdusty2010 wrote: »

Did you, how did you manage that?? I never thought they actually gave away prizes to real people.

There's a whole thread on playtv here : http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055614836
They were discussing a puzzle, someone knew the answer cos they saw it in canada, i rang in and got th money
Tokk 2 1/2 months to actually receive it, they got another irate call on-air from me when i was drunk and had the lads over, funny stuff

FearDark

Scam TV more like.

Gillington

Good riddance I say

Sharpshooter

Patdusty2010 wrote: »

When did Play TV get taken off the air? I was just flicking through the channels and noticed its not on TV3 anymore.

Was it taken off the air as it was a complete scam?

http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news...d-off-play-tv/

Plunge in calls killed off 'Play TV'
Ken Foxe, Public Affairs Correspondent

THE number of people entering a controversial TV3 quiz show had dwindled so much that the station was forced to call back entrants who had entered the competition online.

Play TV, which has now been scrapped by the station, had 26 complaints against it upheld by the Broadcasting Authority, and its predecessor the Broadcasting Complaints Commission.

A decision was made in recent weeks to jettison the show and Play TV vanished from the scheduling. TV3 then made an official announcement that the service was being dropped following enquiries by the Sunday Tribune.

One viewer, who had a number of complaints against the service upheld, said he had monitored the service in its final weeks and the number of calls being received, as posted on the show's website, was in terminal decline.

"The call levels had dropped from around 200 per minute to around 50 to 60 per minute for the first hour in recent times," he said.

"After the first hour, call levels were persistently below 10 per minute with periods where there were no calls per minute being recorded.

"They had got to the stage where they had no callers at the end of the show so they had to call back people who had entered via the website."

In its early days, TV3 had been getting up to 200 calls per minute, which at €1.50 for each call, was offering potential revenue of up to €18,000 per hour.

"The service was very popular with viewers but recently viewership to the service has declined," said a TV3 statement.

The Broadcasting Authority found that the operation of Play TV had been "misleading and unfair".

March 7, 2010

This is an article taken from the thread SlasherMcGurk linked to.:pac:

OutlawPete

I knew someone who's babysitter racked up three grands worth on their landline.

She kept denying it and then broke down and admitted it.

FM104 did a show on it one night, mad how many people were convinced they'd win to such an extent that they would get that deep in debt.

m@cc@

OutlawPete wrote: »

I knew someone who's babysitter racked up three grands worth on their landline.

When you phone these lines, there should be a clause that also means you're signing up for chemical sterilisation. Idiots!

Resi12

OutlawPete wrote: »

I knew someone who's babysitter racked up three grands worth on their landline.

How?! Wasn't there a limit of 300 calls a month?

cloneslad

I called it two times in my entire life. After the 2nd call I decided not to call it again as I would never be able to get through.

My second call won me €4622 which I got after the 6 week waiting period.

Absurdum

the red head presenter made the absolute ****eness of it all worthwhile

homerun_homer

Absurdum wrote: »

the red head presenter made the absolute ****eness of it all worthwhile

Pics or gtfo

Dunjohn

That there article Sharpshooter quoted wrote: »

One viewer, who had a number of complaints against the service upheld, said he had monitored the service in its final weeks and the number of calls being received, as posted on the show's website, was in terminal decline.

"The call levels had dropped from around 200 per minute to around 50 to 60 per minute for the first hour in recent times," he said.

"After the first hour, call levels were persistently below 10 per minute with periods where there were no calls per minute being recorded.

...Is this the saddest person on the planet?

Forest Master

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Absurdum

homerun_homer wrote: »

Pics or gtfo

http://www.playtvireland.com/?page=presenters

second one down, she looks retarded in that pic :pac:

Stephentlig

we are been conned out of money as it is in this country, but I think they took this show off the air because they made it a little obvious.

pikachucheeks

Patdusty2010 wrote: »

Was it taken off the air as it was a complete scam?

It wasn't a scam (people could genuinely win, albeit to phone in was extradinarily expensive) and it wasn't part of TV3 programming. It was an infomercial, after TV3 went off air at night.

I'm glad they got rid of it though, to be honest. More hassle than it was worth!