New allegations have emerged against Rupert Murdoch's media empire… this time involving hacking in the lucrative pay TV industry.
will include the first Australian broadcast of an investigation into the claims by Vivian White from the BBC's Panorama.
It alleges that a Murdoch-owned company, NDS, contracted computer hackers to acquire and distribute the smartcard codes of a pay TV rival in the UK.
It meant viewers of ITV's On Digital could watch pay TV channels for free, which has been blamed for undermining its business and contributing to its eventual collapse.
That cleared the way for Sky TV, which is part owned by News Corp, to become the market leader.
In the report, the hacker at the centre of the previously secret operation breaks his silence, while Rupert Murdoch himself has since used Twitter to strenuously deny the allegations. NDS also denies the allegations.
See the report on Tuesday's Dateline at 9.30pm on SBS ONE, and
