Pirate television in popular culture Pirate television

1 pirate television in popular culture

1.1 movies
1.2 television
1.3 music
1.4 books

1.4.1 comic books

pirate television in popular culture
movies

movies show pirate tv channels breaking in on top of existing channels, of them simultaneously.

band waggon (1940) - british film pair of out-of-work performers evicted squatting on roof of broadcasting house (where bbc s studios located). after moving supposedly haunted castle, discover television transmission equipment used german secret agents , use put on show on bbc s frequencies.
batman (1989) - joker overpowers tv signal broadcast commercial deadly smilex , gimmick in keeping comics counterpart (see below).
bedwin hacker (2003) - tunisian woman hijacks tv signals form of political protest, broadcasting short text messages pictures of cartoon camel. french counter-intelligence (dst) computer expert attempts track down way of spy sent infiltrate hacker s social circle. note several years before arab spring.
death race 2000 (1975) - political revolutionaries use broadcast signal intrusion announce plans sabotage transcontinental road race.
district 13 (2004) - protagonists force defense secretary admitting planning detonate neutron bomb, , videotaped confession broadcast via pirate transmission.
free amerika broadcasting (1981) - dramatic film pirate television station run revolutionaries in hypothetical united states vice-president spiro t. agnew declares martial law after president richard nixon assassinated.
hackers (1995) - 1 of characters, dade 0 cool murphy, hacks tv station s network feed , switches programming episode of outer limits. fictional tv show, hack planet, shown on pirate tv channel.
riders of storm (1986) (released in australia american way) - disgruntled vietnam war veterans operate s&m tv, pirate tv station, airborne b-29 airplane.
robocop 3 (1993) - dr. lazarus , nikko transmit on mediabreak tell city goings-on in cadillac heights.
the running man (1987) - revolutionaries use broadcast signal intrusion detour popular tv game show.
serenity (2005) - criminals sense of honor use pirate television broadcast expose large governmental cover-up.
simon (1980) - psychology professor, brainwashed scientists prank believe of extraterrestrial origin, attempts reform american society broadcasting pronouncements high-power transmitter overrides tv network feeds, becoming national celebrity in process.
they live (1988) - group, seeking warn populace of alien invasion, use broadcast signal intrusion on local tv programming.
used cars (1980) - feuding used car lot owners use broadcast signal intrusion discredit each other.
via macau (1966) - pirate television station used spread dissent among representatives @ international conference.
videodrome (1983) - tv technician discovers encrypted pirate tv signal transmitting appear snuff films.

television

al tv (1980s-90s) - series of mtv specials hosted weird al yankovic, using own pirate transmitter take on mtv s signal play unusual music videos , comedy bits.
batman - on episode minstrel s shakedown , title villain uses broadcast signal intrusion threaten police , stock exchange of gotham city.
channel umptee-3 (1997) - animated children s educational television series. main characters operate pirate tv station located in white space between channels .
disney club (brazil) (1997–2002) - in brazilian version, later renamed disney cruj, protagonists operate pirate tv station.
dark angel (2000–2002) - 1 of series protagonists, logan cale, operated pirate television broadcast known eyes broadcast news reports, expose political/corporate corruption, issue public alerts, etc.
family guy - on episode ptv , peter griffin, angered authorities censoring tv broadcasts, starts own well-liked pirate tv station, ptv, containing deleted risqué scenes movies , tv shows, partial nudity tv programs , dogs mating.
green acres - episode, how succeed in television without trying. hooterville whiz-kid builds pirate tv station in mr douglass es barn. mr douglass gets undressed in barn not knowing starring on tv in hooterville. fcc drops in shut mr douglass down , tries deny whole thing. but, @ same time, mr haney drives rack full of men s underwear. tells mr douglass needs new shorts next undressing show.
max headroom (1987) - 1 of tv series characters, blank reg , runs big time television, pirate station, converted bus.
on rocks short-lived 1970s british itv children s show starring arthur mullard among others, featuring pirate tv station broadcast deserted lighthouse.
rock n america 1984 series in rick ducommun played vj named rick, play rock videos jamming existing tv channels. character relentlessly, unsuccessfully, pursued fcc agent. when agent asked if rick doing lark, rick replied (via illegal transmission) father had invented system , offered military jamming nazi propaganda broadcasts during world war ii, had been rebuffed.
the simpsons - in episode sideshow bob s last gleaming , springfield ordered sideshow bob shut down television stations or face nuclear devastation. krusty clown refuses comply demands , uses abandoned emergency broadcast system transmitter operate pirate tv station , broadcast heavily-improvised material.
télé pirate (1991–1996) - children tv show quebec mimicking illegal intrusion on diffuser s channel main plot.
torchwood (2006–2011) - in children of earth: day five, pirate television station broadcasts footage of soldiers taking children rendezvous point on digital 141.

music

flaunt (1986) - debut album british band sigue sigue sputnik notable containing paid advertisements between tracks , in liner notes, including 1 london pirate tv station network 21.

books

the moon harsh mistress (1966) - in science fiction novel, self-aware computer helps revolutionaries generating , broadcasting synthesized tv transmissions of non-existent leader adam selene via internal tv network.
mockingjay (2010) - book, third in hunger games trilogy, describes hacking of official government television broadcasts @ several points in novel, replacing them calls revolution, before original broadcasts restored government.

comic books

batman villain joker announces crimes gotham city way, in keeping theme showman. in character s earliest appearances (including debut in batman #1 spring of 1940), used radio broadcasts effect.
american flagg! (1983–1989) - science fiction comic book series created howard chaykin set in 2030s. plot device in story q-usa, pirate tv station broadcasts illegal sports, pornography, , movies , television shows made before collapse of pre-existing order .
wrab: pirate television (1985) - graphic novel matt howarth pirate television station broadcasting international waters hacks other networks satellite transponders, intent of capturing worldwide audience.




^ sigue sigue sputnik – flaunt (cd, album) @ discogs . retrieved 2013-01-15. 
^ collins, suzanne (2010). mockingjay. scholastic.