The Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of T&T (TATT) has told CCN TV6 it was in­ap­pro­pri­ate to air a cer­tain pro­gramme when chil­dren were like­ly to be view­ing. TATT's CEO Cris Seecher­an re­spond­ed to Kirk Wait­he of Fix­in' T&T by let­ter dat­ed April 17. Fix­in' T&T has been writ­ing to the au­thor­i­ty over con­cerns of in­ap­pro­pri­ate lo­cal pro­gram­ming broad­cast by the tele­vi­sion sta­tion on April 3 and 12.

Seecher­an's let­ter to Wait­he said TATT told the sta­tion that con­tent shown in two edi­tions of the Crime Watch pro­gramme did not serve the pub­lic in­ter­est and was not in the best in­ter­est of the fam­i­lies of the de­ceased peo­ple in­volved.

Seecher­an said TATT re­mind­ed TV6 of its ear­li­er let­ter that said: "While one may ar­gue that the is­sue of 'taste' is a fac­tor in the as­sess­ment of the 'suit­abil­i­ty' of con­tent aired, there is ar­guably a firm line that can be drawn be­tween what may gen­er­al­ly be con­sid­ered suit­able for view­ing by chil­dren and that which may be con­sid­ered un­suit­able." TATT urged the sta­tion to en­sure jour­nal­is­tic stan­dards were main­tained at all times and that con­tent gen­er­al­ly con­sid­ered un­suit­able for chil­dren should not be aired dur­ing pe­ri­ods when they are like­ly to be watch­ing tele­vi­sion. The let­ter added that TATT felt the footage was aired to sen­sa­tion­alise and in­crease the pro­gramme's rat­ings with­out con­sid­er­ing the pub­lic in­ter­est or the pri­va­cy of the fam­i­lies and with­out care and at­ten­tion to chil­dren who may have been watch­ing.