GMTV's massive fine

So far the companies around the ‘phone-ins’ seem to be taking the rap for the deceits and frauds. The Mail on Sunday’s Financial supplement has been consistently anti ITV Play and this week it notes that William Van Rest is ‘still hanging on to job’ he used to be with the rather aptly named Optimistic Entertainment.

News that the company responsible for running the phone ins for GMTV (Opera) was hit by a fine of £250,000 and that GMTV have had a £2m fine imposed on them today is unlikely to make Mr Van Rest feel any more secure at ITV.

How to get responses for a research

I'm not sure if anyone has tips as to how to get responses from letters?

When I first started this research I wrote to a few people to ask for input, Charles Allen (he’d been ITV boss when the channel launched) – no reply
Richard Woolfe (Sky) – no reply (and now he’s having employment tribunal trouble)
William van Rest –ITV Play at least I got a no.

Channel 5’s News supremo Chris Shaw kindly replied and did give a note of an article he’d written for the Media Guardian.

If anyone want s to help or has information about Telemedia (where the presenters are trained) I’d be grateful details to itvplaysurvey@btopenworld.com