Found NHK on Sky

NHK, Japan's public broadcast service has this new English-language channel on Sky Digital (Channel 516, doesn't appear to be available on Virgin). I was just browsing through the channels and there it was. I wish I could go somewhere like Tokyo for a change. One thing you have to say about the Japanese though, they work quite hard, so it's understandable when they play just as hard.

Pirate and Crossborder Broadcasting

Radio Free Europe was used by the US Government to peacefully undermine Communist governments. It did so by being a station which was not controlled by the State.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe http://www.rferl.org/

Telestreet was founded in 2002 in Bologna, Italy due to the fact that Silvio Berlusconi owns 3 out of the 4 major media networks over there.
http://www.archive.org/details/telestreet2

If anyone wants to get a pirate TV station up, I'd support it. It'd be quite a technical challenge.

Word to the wise: Get the transmitter as high above the ground as possible! It'll allow the signal to cover a wider area. That's why pirate radio stations are usually found in a block of flats.