Even after Bang's services were removed from the Sky EPG and from broadcast on the Freeview platform, Bang continued to broadcast material in breach of a direction from Ofcom that it should cease broadcasting immediately, and even told viewers how to circumvent the restrictions by reconfiguring their set top boxes.
It is not surprising that the diplomats should see broadcasting as an arm of their political aims to "promote liberal democracy", to "combat the wilder forms of Islam".
At a State Department briefing yesterday, the department spokesman, Richard Boucher said, "We didn't think that the American taxpayer, the Voice of America, should be broadcasting the voice of the Taliban".
The former Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson has said the BBC should stop broadcasting programmes such as EastEnders and The Voice, saying its commercial rivals would "give their right arm" for hit shows such as the Albert Square soap.
They noted, for instance, that there have been debates among officials in both places about how and when the party should begin broadcasting commercials attacking Mr. Gore -- and that those debates are ongoing.
At the rate we were going back then, and judging by the way adults rolled their eyes at us, we should be broadcasting from the bathroom by now.
When you are finished, the router should begin broadcasting your Internet connection wirelessly.
The government, if communications systems are still functional, should be broadcasting emergency information alerting its citizens of the danger.
"Television matters to most people as viewers and it is right that in the current debates about what public service broadcasting should deliver in Wales, audiences should take a central part," she added.
That is what public service broadcasting should be all about.
