By News Editor Declan Wilkes 11.30 GMT 

OFCOM have fined the BBC £95,000 after last years call-in competition scam.

BBC London 94.9 received a £25,000 slap on the wrists by the broadcasting watchdog after they aired quizzes which listeners could not win. Adding that producers "knowingly misled" listeners.

The competitions were pre recorded yet still invited listeners to call in with a chance to win.

This fine was in relation to eight editions of Dermot O'Leary's Radio 2 show in 2006 and five Tony Blackburn programmes on BBC London 94.9 in 2005 and 2006.

In July the BBC were hit with a £400,000 fine after several programmes, including Children In Need were found to 'fake' call ins. ITV were hit with a huge £5.675m fine for abusing premium rate phone services in competitions.

"Serious" breaches

Ofcom called the latest round of breaches "serious" and the BBC Trust ruled audiences were "misled" and said on-air apologies were needed.

Radio 2 was fined £70,000 for eight breaches between June and December 2006 and told to broadcast the watchdog's findings on-air "at a time, and in a form, to be decided by Ofcom".

BBC London

Ofcom said listeners who had previously contacted the show were invited to be the competition entrants for "logistical" reasons not technical therefore producers “knowingly misled" listeners.

The watchdog added it was:

"very concerned by the repeated, pre-meditated and deliberate decisions to include competitions in pre-recorded programmes that were broadcast 'as live'".