2018 Kawanese broadcast hijack

On 1 September 2018, two people, Édgar Tamayo and Diego Alejandro Zorita started hijacking/hacking broadcasting television networks, including cable channels, during an otherwise peaceful Saturday morning. They installed hacking bots into the computers in the broadcasting rooms from different television networks in Kawa while they were in one place.

The incident left viewers and citizens in Kawa baffled, cringing, and offended at the same time. According to Canal Six, it was said that their computers at the broadcasting room was affected by the hacking bots, which started putting controversial things such as Munkey Jones Stops a School Shooting into television, which was banned in other countries outside of the United States and Canada. Detectives, sent by the Kawanese government, went to investigate what caused the incident. On February 2019, Édgar Tamayo and Diego Alejandro Zorita were later arrested after being red-handed for the incident by hacking the computers, as it was caught in security cameras at the Crespita Broadcasting Company broadcasting room.

Incident
The television hijacking/hacking occurred at 7:06 am (GMT-3) in the morning, where Édgar Tamayo and Diego Alejandro Zorita were at the back of Crespita Broadcasting Company headquarters, and decided to break into the broadcasting room by installing hacking bots into computers transfering to other computers in many broadcasting studios, including cable providers, in Kawa. Firstly, the CBC Morning News Hour, which was on live at the moment, was abuptly interupted, as the color bars were on-screen for 30 seconds, when all the sudden, a message that appeared on the television started saying, "We are currently offline right now. No, are you stupid? Your TV has been hacked and it will come to haunt you!", translated also in Spanish and Portuguese. Canal Six was also hacked at 8:28 am (GMT-3) replacing Café Hora, which was supposed to be on at that time, with Munkey Jones Stops a School Shooting, involving an atheist attending a Christian school, and then later shoot up the whole school after being bullied by his classmates, which was deemed by some evangelicals to be offensive. Not even Écran was safe from the hacking which happened at 9:01 am, where Marco the Parrot gets replaced with an pornographic movie, with that problem being reported from parents thankfully changing the channel before things got ugly for them. TV Montoya was hacked at 10:25 am, replacing One Sweet Morning with a broadcast interruption, leaving the channel offline for hours. CTN was hacked at around 11:07 am, where the CTN News Hour was being replaced by a hardcore pornographic clip. Schaeffer Broadcasting System was also hacked at approximately 12:00 pm at noon, replacing ''Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks'' with another pornographic movie. Cable channels (including Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel, etc; with the exception of Fox, Comedy Central, CNN and Kremo) were hacked between 12:59 pm and 2:25 pm.

Aftermath
Until 4:28 pm, many of the affected television networks were all taken down until the hijacking was finally over and later went back to it's normal programming. As mentioned, channels like Fox, Comedy Central, CNN, Kremo, TV Luna, Telenovela were the only ones not to be affected. Édgar Tamayo and Diego Alejandro Zorita remained hidden for over five months and no news about them has been reported until 15 February 2019, when The Kawa Times reported that the suspect has been arrested for television broadcast interference. They went on trail on 2 September 2019 (about a year after the incident) with them being sentenced to 5-10 years in prison without any bail-outs.

Kawanese citizens and viewers
Many Kawanese citizens and viewers were surprised or disgusted about the incident, with a majority questioning to broadcasting networks of why did they air such type of content on television. One evangelical viewer lambasted Munkey Jones Stops a School Shooting with her saying, "This is a very offensive film to air on public television that outright mocks Christianity! Why was this allowed?!" Michaël Maurice, a voice actor, even tweeted, "Yes, I know what you people saw on TV was weird, but I'm pretty sure the broadcasters wasn't entirely responsible for this. But for what aired on TV, what a world this is..."

Broadcasting networks
Many broadcasting networks felt pity in behalf of the people who had to suffer through the incident. Canal Six responded to one viewer about the Munkey Jones short saying, "Lo sentimos mucho por eso, pero nunca planeamos transmitir esto. Alguien debe haber entrado en nuestra sala de transmisión y poner esto." which translates to "We're so sorry about that, but we never planned to air this. Someone must've broke into our broadcasting room and put this." LYNX Television Network also responded, "Well, we've check the security cameras and saw corruption on the computers in our broadcasting room, implying they were hacked."