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Johannesburg - The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of SA (BCCSA) has fined DStv channel kykNET R15 000 for broadcasting an age-restricted movie with sex scenes in family time.
"The Tribunal has taken into consideration the fact that this is the third time in two years that a contravention of this nature has occurred," the BCCSA said in a judgment released on Wednesday.
"After the first contravention the broadcaster promised that a contravention like this will not happen again. The broadcaster was then only reprimanded. To ensure that the broadcaster takes the necessary steps to avoid a similar contravention in future, the Tribunal has decided to impose a fine of R15 000."
The BCCSA received two complaints about the broadcasting of the movie Hond se Dinges at 19.30 on a Friday.
'Highly disgusted'
The film was wrongly advertised on the Afrikaans channel with a 13PG advisory, while it was in fact a 16NS movie, with an age restriction of 16 and warnings of sex and nudity.
"It's 19.30 on a Friday night, the family is sitting down to watch a movie and all we get is sex," said complainant R Rundle.
"If there really has to be movies like that why not put it on late at night with the correct rating and show it on a channel that you can expect something like that.
"I am highly disgusted with kykNET as I thought that that channel at least still has some kind of morals, it being a Afrikaans channel. It's a pity I was wrong. One more channel that we won't be able to watch," said Rundle.
The channel admitted to the BCCSA that it had made a mistake by broadcasting the film in family time, and also by advertising it with the wrong advisory.
"The Tribunal has taken into consideration the fact that this is the third time in two years that a contravention of this nature has occurred," the BCCSA said in a judgment released on Wednesday.
"After the first contravention the broadcaster promised that a contravention like this will not happen again. The broadcaster was then only reprimanded. To ensure that the broadcaster takes the necessary steps to avoid a similar contravention in future, the Tribunal has decided to impose a fine of R15 000."
The BCCSA received two complaints about the broadcasting of the movie Hond se Dinges at 19.30 on a Friday.
'Highly disgusted'
The film was wrongly advertised on the Afrikaans channel with a 13PG advisory, while it was in fact a 16NS movie, with an age restriction of 16 and warnings of sex and nudity.
"It's 19.30 on a Friday night, the family is sitting down to watch a movie and all we get is sex," said complainant R Rundle.
"If there really has to be movies like that why not put it on late at night with the correct rating and show it on a channel that you can expect something like that.
"I am highly disgusted with kykNET as I thought that that channel at least still has some kind of morals, it being a Afrikaans channel. It's a pity I was wrong. One more channel that we won't be able to watch," said Rundle.
The channel admitted to the BCCSA that it had made a mistake by broadcasting the film in family time, and also by advertising it with the wrong advisory.
