Anton Attard visited Bondi+ studio to oversee Franco Debono transmission

The CEO of the Public Broadcasting Services admits to have given instructions for last Tuesday’s edition of Bondiplus to be transmitted for almost an hour and a half.

15 January 2012, 12:00am
by Julia Farrugia

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PBS CEO Anton Attard

Sunday newspaper Illum reveals that Anton Attard, the CEO of PBS, gave permission and instructions for Where's Everybody programme Bondiplus to be extended from 45 minutes to 1 hour and 25 minutes when Lou Bondì had on his programme backbencher Franco Debono.
Attard also admitted to having decided when the programme should end - which explained why an exasperated Bondì had seem lost when he thought the programme was going on break and in reality had ended.
The last comment made by Debono on the programme was to tell the presenter he would not be prompted to "repeat words like a parrot".

Read more in Illum's digital edition

Julia Farrugia is a former editor of Illum newspaper.