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By tradition, in some countries, April 1 or April Fools' Day is marked by pranks and practical jokes. Notable practical jokes have appeared on radio and TV stations, newspapers, web sites, and have been performed by large corporations. ==Television stations== * Spaghetti trees: The BBC television programme ''Panorama'' ran a hoax in 1957, showing Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. They had claimed that the despised pest, the spaghetti weevil, had been eradicated. A large number of people contacted the BBC wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees. It was, in fact, filmed in St Albans.〔(Still a good joke – 47 years on ) (BBC News, April 1, 2004)〕 The editor of ''Panorama'' at the time Michael Peacock gave the go-ahead to the idea which was pitched by freelance camera operator Charles de Jaeger. Michael Peacock told the BBC in 2014 how he gave Charles de Jaeger a budget of £100 and sent him off. Mr Peacock said the respected ''Panorama'' anchorman Richard Dimbleby knew they were using his authority to make the joke work. Mr Peacock said Mr Dimbleby loved the idea and went at it with relish.〔BBC TV News interview with Michael Peacock 1/4/14...〕 Decades later CNN called this broadcast "the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled". * In 1962, Swedish national television broadcast a 5-minute special on how one could get color TV by placing a nylon stocking in front of the TV. A rather in-depth description on the physics behind the phenomenon was included. Thousands of people tried it. * Smell-o-vision: In 1965, the BBC purported to conduct a trial of a new technology allowing the transmission of odour over the airwaves to all viewers. Many viewers reportedly contacted the BBC to report the trial's success.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=April Fools' Day, 1965 )〕 In 2007, the BBC website repeated an online version of the hoax, as did Google in 2013, in tribute. *Great Blue Hill eruption prank: On April 1, 1980, Boston television station WNAC-TV aired a fake news bulletin at the end of the 6 o'clock news which reported that Great Blue Hill in Milton, Massachusetts was erupting. The prank resulted in panic in Milton, where some residents began to flee their homes. The executive producer of the 6 o'clock news, Homer Cilley, was fired by the station for "his failure to exercise good news judgment" and for violating the Federal Communications Commission's rules about showing stock footage without identifying it as such. * 2000 Sydney Olympics - In 1999, what started out as a Triple J radio prank soon turned TV when Australian morning breakfast host Richard Wilkins overheard the prank and announced the 2000 Olympics had been stripped from Sydney. The mistake was very quickly fixed and the two shows carried on as normal. * In 2008, the BBC reported on a newly discovered colony of flying penguins. An elaborate video segment was even produced, featuring Terry Jones walking with the penguins in Antarctica, and following their flight to the Amazon rainforest. * Netflix April Fools' Day jokes include over-detailing categories of films, and adding original programming made up entirely of food cooking. *In 2015, Ireland's RTÉ News reports the launch of Fur TV, a new TV channel aimed specifically at pets. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of April Fools' Day jokes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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