Tag: prank phone call

2Day FM could potentially have its broadcast license suspended, after a High Court ruling that two radio presenters broke the law in 2012 when they aired a prank phone call which went horribly wrong.

The so-called 'Royal hoax call' scandal, in which a British nurse committed suicide after being duped by Australian radio DJs, has reached the Australian High Court.

An Australian DJ linked to the death of a British nurse following a prank call has resolved her dispute with her employer and resigned.

2Day FM has lost a legal bid to prevent the media authority from finding it broke the law by broadcasting a royal prank call.

The chairman of the media company behind 2Day FM’s royal prank call has brushed off the incident to shareholders saying “Sh*t happens”.

Sydney radio station 2Day FM is seeking to prevent the media watchdog from finding it committed a criminal offence last year.

A British inquest into the death of a nurse who took her own life after receiving a prank call from two Australian radio DJs has been delayed again.

Scotland Yard have handed a file of evidence on a royal prank call linked to the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha in December last year to the Australian Federal Police and NSW police.

Mel Greig, one of the Australian radio DJs involved in the royal prank phone call to a London nurse, is taking legal action against her employer Austereo for failing to maintain a safe workplace.

Legal action from 2DayFM in the Austereo group gags broadcasting watchdog from publishing findings of a six-month long inquiry into the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha.

The family of the British nurse, Jacintha Saldanha, who committed suicide days after a prank call by two Australian DJs has slammed the radio station for giving one of the DJs, Michael Christian, a major award.

The awarding of "Top Jock" to Australian DJ Michael Christian, one of the 2DayFM radio jocks embroiled in the UK royal prank call scandal during which nurse Jacintha Saldanha took her own life, has been labelled in "bad taste".