Radio / Television News

Numbers don’t add up for call-in show L’instant gagnant rules CBSC

OTTAWA - Puzzled over numerous complaints regarding a TV call-in contest, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) has concluded its numbers don’t stand up to scrutiny. The complaints concern L’instant gagnant, a television call-in contest program broadcast on V seven evenings a week, starting in the late evening and continuing into the morning of the next day. The program is produced and paid for by TéléMedia InteracTV.  L’instant gagnant is the most recent version of a contest program in which the host invites viewers to telephone the program to solve various games and puzzles in order to win a cash...