Comments on: TT accuses Idol of “insider trading?”

By: Klaus

Klaus — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:29:03 +0000

Couldn’t one argue that these SMS voting shows equate to a ‘lottery’. Every one voting – spending their money to buy an SMS ‘ticket’ – is ‘gambling’ on their favourite getting through. Therefore, shouldn’t these be governed by some State’s Lottery Act and thus be open to scrutiny?

Perhaps then we’ll know for sure that the Producers aren’t ‘fiddling’ the results for ratings and recording profit outcomes!

By: Veee

Veee — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:02:07 +0000

um mm I’m kinda confused what is wagered can someone help me

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:04:48 +0000

No one is making huge money off reality shows other than the bookmaker and the station running the show. The bookmakers all have limits on the maximum amount that can be wagered on these events to stop this very problem from occurring. They would also shut down betting immediately if they suspected unusual betting patterns. If there was a real issue here bookmakers would stop offering odds on these events altogether but we know why they don’t.

By: ali

ali — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:00:05 +0000

Who wants to bet on such crap anyway??

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:48:42 +0000

The story was stupid, but i believe Australian Idol is rigged in the favour of Sophie

By: Reality Raver

Reality Raver — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:32:45 +0000

This story ran in the press the week after Brooke was eliminated. Apparently her father was not going to rest until an inquiry occurred.

Did TT present it as a scoop? Still not as good as last year ‘s Idol Hillsong voting conspiracy they managed to milk that story for awhile.

By the way love your website.

By: Kuttsywood

Kuttsywood — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:57:41 +0000

Looks like TT’s back to normal…

By: Zambora

Zambora — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:00:00 +0000

and the questions still remained unanswered.

Who gets what money from phone line voting ?
Who monitors the votes and how many people at TV stations/production companies know the ongoing toals during voting period. ?

Who owns/ has shares in these voting phone line companies ?

As has been proved time and time again overseas (and no doubt has happened here), sometimes the production company/tv network just picks their own winners regardless of so called public voting.

By: TV worker

TV worker — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:53:28 +0000

you have raised some great points David…it made more sense than the TT story itself… maybe TT held off on a betting story because it may have been more credible for a sporting man to read the intro…who knows… all the payouts and voting results should be made public and be held accountable as there are bets being placed on shows outcomes…meaning huge monies being made by someone somewhere…its like all phone polls, they should have a super saying that they received 20 thousand calls at least to get an idea on what formed the opinion or how the result was reached…. anyway as we all know its a Newtork TV money making machine…