{"id":123373,"date":"2025-09-08T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/123373\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:18:10","slug":"bbc-announces-major-change-to-voting-systems-including-strictly-come-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/123373\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC announces major change to voting systems including Strictly Come Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BBC has announced a major change in its voting system, with its offer of premium-rate phone voting now coming to an end.<\/p>\n

This means those looking to vote on their favourite shows, including Strictly Come Dancing<\/a>, will now only be able to vote online, with the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel becoming the last major BBC show to offer premium-rate phone voting.<\/p>\n

In the past, viewers have been able to vote by calling premium-rate numbers, but as noted by the BBC “this is now an outdated system and also expensive to run”.<\/p>\n

Online voting has been the go-to choice for plenty of viewers, with an overwhelming amount of the votes for last year’s Strictly Come Dancing coming from online voters.<\/p>\n

\"Graham<\/p>\n

Graham Norton for Eurovision 2025.\u00a0BBC\/BBC Studios<\/p>\n

So, for those who haven’t used the online voting system before, now is the time to get yourself a BBC account as Strictly Come Dancing returns to screens in just under two weeks.<\/p>\n

Having an account doesn’t just let you vote, it also offers a more personalised BBC iPlayer experience, the ability to pick up shows across devices as well as local weather updates tailored to you.<\/p>\n

If you don’t have an account yet, you can sign up for free on the BBC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Strictly Come Dancing returns to BBC One and iPlayer on Saturday 20th September.<\/p>\n

Add Strictly Come Dancing to your watchlist on the Radio Times: What to Watch app<\/a> \u2013 download now for daily TV recommendations, features and more.<\/p>\n

Check out more of our Entertainment<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> and Streaming Guide<\/a> to find out what’s on. For more TV recommendations and reviews, listen to The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The BBC has announced a major change in its voting system, with its offer of premium-rate phone voting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-123373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}