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Sat-UK #185 10.01.98: EUROTICA RENDEZ-VOUS
Sat-UK Report #185:
- Eurotica Rendez-Vous to be banned
saturday 10th january 1998
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And now the news:
---------- Eurotica Rendez-Vous to be banned
(source: BBC News)
Eurotica Rendez-Vous, the most popular European porn channel in the UK,
is to be banned by the new Labour government. Nothing has been finalized
yet, but the new Culture Secretary, Chris Smith, has decided to do so.
If all goes ahead, the channel will be given a 15-day period in which it
can stop broadcasts to the United Kingdom, which is highly unlikely.
Thereafter, if the channel does not comply, it will be completely banned
in the United Kingdom. That is to say subscriptions, smartcards,
adverts... even decoders/receivers could be made illegal (no more
D2-MAC!). This is the first move by the new government to proscribe a
porn channel in the United Kingdom. The two former porn channels
Eurotica and Rendez-Vous had both been proscribed - the new merger
effected a new company which was not on the proscription list. All E/RDV
will have to do to be unproscribe again is to change their name! So far,
this is the 6th (I think) proscription of a porn channel in the United
Kingdom, yet no other European country has had one...
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