Did they insert a monkey playing cymbals? That would have been an improvement over Nine's morning shows....
It's worth pointing out that Nine is owned by Rupert Murdoch, so that may have made it an attractive target for the hackers, particularly if they feel that Murdoch's news operations are steering Australian policy against China. John On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 at 11:51, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > Nine Network, one of the two commercial networks in Australia that > dominate the ratings in that country, suffered a weekend cyberattack that > affected their news and current affairs departments and wreaked havoc on > live programming on Sunday (including their morning show "Today") and the > news department's web site: > > > https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/australias-channel-nine-suffers-cyber-attack-disruption-to-live-broadcasts > > Nine says that it may take weeks for its news operations to return to > normal. Besides "Today" and the flagship 6 p.m. regional newscasts, the > net's best-known news/current affairs product includes the nightly tabmag > "A Current Affair" (inspiration for the American series of the 80s) and > their version of "60 Minutes," which has stayed on the air despite > ViacomCBS (owners of competing Network 10) only renewing the title and > format rights and not the rights to use stories from the American version. > > Some believe that the Chinese government may be involved in the hack--the > two counties have not been on speaking terms as of late. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a235eab6-9e4b-4c7b-af4d-d6b75cad812bn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a235eab6-9e4b-4c7b-af4d-d6b75cad812bn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- John Edwards "You can insure against the weather, but you can't insure against incompetence, can you?" - Phil Tufnell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJLXtM%2B_NT1gb9EhkEHp2LYJc%2Br-FDi4gLMhJCj45dLBPBu_iA%40mail.gmail.com.
