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Sky Sports TV Ad - 0844 number - no Service Charge

23/7/2015

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The clip to view below is of an advert for Sky Sports, broadcast on "Challenge TV" on the morning of 21 July.
The final frame is frozen and annotated to highlight promotion of a 0844 telephone number without the Service Charge. Declaration of the Service Charge has been a regulatory requirement since 1 July 2015. Sky TV has already been notified of a similar recent case - although the offer being advertised there has now lapsed.
This case has been reported to the ASA, which enforces the BCAP code, in partnership with Ofcom. We hope to see exemplary action, so that the need to declare Service Charges becomes widely recognised and understood - primarily so that those who cannot justify them cease using numbers that impose them on callers.
Let us hope that Sky can perhaps do a little better than Mr Townshend! (Further references to Who titles and lyrics may have to be edited in comments, as I can sense what may be coming.)
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