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Last year Ofcom fined Channel 4 a total of £1.5m for misconduct in the Richard & Judy viewer contest You Say We Pay and a Deal or No Deal phone-in.
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The network also had a viewer essay contest, the winner of which was invited to host an hour of the broadcast from C-SPAN's Capitol Hill studios.
(Scooby-Doo won the viewer write-in contest).
This can be credits on AdGenesis, which viewers can later redeem for gift cards, etc, or the brand can enter the viewer in a contest to win a trip to Hawaii, or offer discounted coupons, and so on.
Additionally, more than 1 million viewers watched the contest live on ESPN, making it the most-watched program the network aired that day.
That was what many viewers expected, especially when all the publicity behind the show – including a contest for viewers – pointed to naming the killer at the end of the first season.
Who will win the popularity contest with viewers remains anyone's guess?
"Mad TV" even recently held a contest inviting viewers to send in videos of their own skits.
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