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BBC apologizes for 'failure in behavior'


May 09, 2008 A day after ITV was fined a record $11.2 million for a shopping list of quiz-related misdemeanors, the BBC was forced to apologize for keeping 106,000 pounds ($206,500) from premium-rate phone calls that should have been donated to charity. Following an internal inquiry by the BBC's governing body, BBC Trust chairman Michael Lyons said there had been no "legal impropriety" but rather "a failure in the behavior of these staff and the BBC's own systems" that amounted to a "serious misjudgment."

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