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The BBC is to broadcast an apology after admitting a subsidiary company kept £106,000 from premium-rate phone- ins that should have gone to charity. | The BBC is to broadcast an apology after admitting a subsidiary company kept £106,000 from premium-rate phone- ins that should have gone to charity. |
A further £6,000 will be donated after viewers were accidentally told to ring in to vote in last year's UK Eurovision final when lines were closed. | A further £6,000 will be donated after viewers were accidentally told to ring in to vote in last year's UK Eurovision final when lines were closed. |
The errors were discovered during an audit for the BBC Trust. | The errors were discovered during an audit for the BBC Trust. |
The other programmes, which have not been named, relate to Audiocall, a firm owned by BBC Worldwide. | The other programmes, which have not been named, relate to Audiocall, a firm owned by BBC Worldwide. |
The BBC said the sums that should have been paid to charity have now been repaid with interest. | |
Its director general, Mark Thompson, has been asked by the trust to consider disciplinary action against a small number of staff. | |
The problems, detailed in a report commissioned by the BBC Trust, happened between October 2005 and September last year. | |
Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons blamed "unacceptable behaviour from a small number of staff". |