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‘Clock is ticking’: European TV channels targeted in wave of hoax bomb threats

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Reuters. (2026, November 6). ‘Clock is ticking’: European TV channels targeted in wave of hoax bomb threats. South China Morning Post. https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3373611/clock-ticking-european-tv-channels-targeted-wave-hoax-bomb-threats

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South China Morning Post · collected 2026-11-06 · by Reuters

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European television channels including RTE in Ireland, Sky in Britain, and Nova TV in Bulgaria received email warnings about bomb threats. These incidents follow a series of similar hoax threats affecting flights across Europe, leading to diversions and emergency measures but no actual bombs were discovered at any location. The warning to RTE disrupted programming for up to three hours as precautionary safety measures were implemented.
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Topics

Britain Bulgarian Irish RTE Sky

Subjects

RTE ORG · 3× Britain GPE · 2× Bulgarian NORP · 2× Irish NORP · 2× Nova TV ORG · 2× Sky ORG · 2× European NORP · 1× Finland GPE · 1× Serbia GPE · 1× Spain GPE · 1×

Narrative

‘Clock is ticking’: European TV channels targeted in wave of hoax bomb threats Warnings were emailed to Irish broadcaster RTE, Britain’s Sky, Bulgarian private station Nova TV and others Warnings were sent to Irish broadcaster RTE, Britain’s Sky, Bulgarian private station Nova TV and others, the companies said.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-11-06
2026-11-06 · South China Morning Post
‘Clock is ticking’: European TV channels targeted in wave of hoax bomb threats · assertive framing

Claims (4 extracted, 0 hedged)

‘Clock is ticking’: European TV channels targeted in wave of hoax bomb threats Warnings were emailed to Irish broadcaster RTE, Britain’s Sky, Bulgarian private station Nova TV and others Warnings were sent to Irish broadcaster RTE, Britain’s Sky, Bulgarian private station Nova TV and others, the companies said. asserted
companies → tick → RTE
No bombs were found at any affected site. asserted
bombs → find → site
RTE programmes were replaced by music and a pre-recorded message, some for as long as three hours. asserted
programmes → replace → hours
The alerts follow a string of hoax bomb threats that has disrupted passenger flights from Serbia to Finland to Spain and beyond in recent days, forcing diversions, emergency landings and security sweeps, though no explosives have been found so far. asserted
explosives → follow → diversions
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