Pirates on TV
The possible hijacking of a television channel at peak time by a pirate TV programme is giving television authorities real concern. Similar events have already taken place on a minor scale in Britain and France with the BBC being embarrassed by publicity given to an April Fool’s Day takeover of its Radio 1 transmitter on the Isle of Wight. Britain’s Independent Broadcasting Authority started to worry after two minutes of pornography was inserted into a French TV programme.
Both the BBC and the IBA admit that a repeat of the French incident could hit the screens of…
