KHOU-TV is reporting that country station KXAX in Livingston was hacked and broadcast a sexually explicit Podcast for four early morning hours one day this week. The Podcast, called Furcast is an adult program produced out in New York. Owner Jason Mclelland said, At that time in the morning, we have a lot of people going to school, taking their kids to school and a lot of businesses listening in. We want to apologize to anyone who was listening out there. We’ll make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
According to a statement posted online, the producers of FurCast say they had nothing to do with the malicious hack. “Our Sincerest Apologies. We have been made aware of a reported incident where FurCast & XBN content was syndicated without our knowledge on a terrestrial FCC licensed FM radio station. We are deeply sorry to hear about this inappropriate incident. FurCast and XBN content is made freely available on iTunes, our website and our YouTube channel for anyone to download and distribute. We are a group of friends who publish audio and video entertainment, wherein it is marked for containing explicit and inappropriate content. We are working with law enforcement to investigate this incident. We have preserved all access log files.”
A radio station in Colorado was also targeted.
That’s what you can expect when you use a dumb streaming encoder to deliver your shows. There is a much better delivery solution out there. In fact, it’s right under your nose.