Talk:Broadcast signal intrusion/Archives/2016/September

V?
Would the hijacking by V of a TV station in V for Vendetta fall under the definition of broadcast signal intrusion? Loknar 19:20, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Why November?
Is there a reason that this article is in the November category? I couldn't see a reason from the article, but thought I would check before removing it. LloydSommerer 17:40, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup
This article is very poorly written. I cleaned up the first few paragraphs, but it's late and i'm tired. I'll hit it again tomorrow to finish if I remember, unless someone beats me to it. - seinman 09:29, 11 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The writing in this article is indeed awful. While cleaning up some spelling and grammar and was a bit flummoxed by this:


 * "he was frustrated with the service rates constituted by HBO of which were unworthy of one's tolerance"


 * I lack the patience at the moment to figure out how to fix this. 75.22.238.176 17:11, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I did a major edit about a month back, re-writing over half of the article and cleaning it up to meet Wikipedia standards... and then the original author came in, said "nothing's wrong with it!" and reverted my edits. Sadly, I just don't care enough to fight this battle.  - seinman 18:21, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

"Fictional Events" section
I've replaced the headlines in the "Fictional Events" section with bulleted lists. I did this to clean up the article style, and to maintain NPOV. Making up headings like "Catch you later Bill & Ted!" and "Zip or be zipped" just aren't very encyclopedic, and the list isn't really important enough for its own headings in this article.

If one day that list grows too big from the article (off the top of my head it's a fairly common plot device in fiction, especially scifi or comic-book type of stuff, for the antagonist or protagonist to magically take over every channel) then perhaps it'll merit expansion into a new article. That could be something to work toward with that section, as it's not really all that important to the main subject of this article, but it's still as interesting and Wikipedia-worthy as any number of similar lists of fictional things.

Thoughts? Rob T Firefly 01:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

The Wyoming Incident
Google Video has this clip with the following text about it. Does anyone know anything more about it?

''"The Wyoming Incident (or The Wyoming Hijacking) is a lesser known case of television broadcast hijacking/hacking. A hacker managed to ... all » interrupt broadcasts from a local programming channel (believed to serve several smaller communities in the county of Niobrara) and aired his/her own video. The video contained numerous clips of disembodied, human heads showing various emotions and "poses". The camera position changed often (usually every ten-to-fifteen seconds) and the video was often interrupted by a "SPECIAL PRESENTATION" announcement. This clip is taken from one of these intervals.

''The video is mostly locally well-known, and would probably not even be that popular if it were not for the effects it had on the few residents who watched it for an extended period of time. Complaints included vomiting, hallucinations, headaches, etc. While some believed it was paranormal, specialists have determined that the cause of these afflictions were frequencies played regularly throughout the broadcast. In this clip, the frequency being played is somewhere between 17 and 19 hz. This range of frequency, when played for long periods of time, causes the eyes to subtly vibrate, sometimes inducing visual hallucinations.

''This video is significant in that is one of the most recent television hijackings. Such actions were rare even in the '80s (search for Chicago Max Headroom Incident) and are even more rare today. The hacker has not yet been caught, and all attempts to trace the video have proven futile." «

Television speakers are not capable of reproducing frequencies anywhere near as low as 17-19hz. Very few if any subwoofers in high-end home theater setups are capable of reproducing such frequencies. The claim about such frequencies inducing hallucinations also sounds bogus. Is there any secondary source for these claims - or indeed anything about the incident?

Please sign your posts. I've been unable to find anything to corroborate the "Wyoming Incident" or "Wyoming Hijack" on Google or otherwise. The only source for this information is the Google Video file linked to in the references section of this article. I'm inclined to believe that this is a hoax or at worst a viral campaign on behalf of a television show or film. If anyone can find additional resources to validate this, that would benefit the article and satisfy my curiosity. Until then, this should be removed from the article. 74.73.86.222 15:07, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I would tend to agree; the video and audio are awful clear for something supposedly originating from a signal hijack. I'm going to be bold and remove it for you. Thunderbunny 20:01, 31 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Through a bit of searching, I found that there's a bit of a theory that it's some sort of alternate reality game.  If nothing else, the concensus seems to be that there never was any true hijacking involved. Tacubus 09:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Would an alternate reality game really employ something this creepy? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.70.184.99 (talk) 22:38, 23 February 2007 (UTC).


 * It's more than just a theory...it's pretty much established fact that it's an ARG. Thunderbunny 08:27, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

It appears this was all an elaborate prank from our friends at Something Awful 66.9.126.26 22:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Yay or nay, this should appear in the "fictional events" section, because after awhile there it attracted lots of people and police were called in to investigate.--74.134.12.230 01:21, 28 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Correct. Some view it as a hoax or game. The videos were created by Somethingawful.com forum members. The videos themselves are interesting, but forum members did try to perpetuate the fact that these were local Wyoming broadcast signal intrusions that caused headaches, hallucinations, etc.


 * The threads (requires a forums account which at this time costs $10):


 * http://archives.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2345461
 * http://archives.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2350410
 * Artificial Silence 21:28, 04/04/2007 [EDT]

BO-O-O-O!!! Look at this! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.190.195.86 (talk) 16:11, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Innacurate report of Captain Midnights' intentions?
"The man who during the interruption threatened to hijack the signals of Showtime and The Movie Channel"

The account at: http://www.signaltonoise.net/library/captmidn.htm

Seems to contradict this. Should this be updated? Mulletsrokk 21:36, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Further....
The article section on the "Max Headroom" incident is factually inaccurate. The video of the hijack is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnDYssFcNxc

The perp didn't use "obscenities" and hardly can be described as "nude". The actual detail of the "spanking" is absent and again provides a false impression.

This whole article needs a cleanup pronto. Mulletsrokk 21:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Other Possible Fictional Events
Will someone look into a 1995 movie called Broadcast Bombshells??? Because I was searching through my program guide on Dish Network and it said something about competing newswomen and a mad bomber disrupting a TV station. If this is accurate please identify the source of the information. Also, describe the station to the most explicit detail. I'll be here waiting... --WIKISCRIPPS 07 SAT FEB 3 2007 1:37 PM EST

Wyoming Incident Mystery Solved (sort of)
Check out http://youtube.com/watch?v=K21YdhuxjlM

Educated guess: Some indie filmmaker is screwing around with Youtube and Google. The videos are still creepy, though. Thunderbunny 03:04, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

You know, myself and several other people have compared these videos to "The Ring"... could this be an early viral campaign for "The Ring Three", which is due for release next year? --SteveWorek


 * I can see where you'd get that, but if it's a viral campaign, it's not doing very well judging by the number of views it's gotten on Google/YouTube. Thunderbunny 05:00, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

See above. This was all an elaborate prank from SomethingAwful.com.


 * Correct. Some view it as a hoax or game. The videos were created by Somethingawful.com forum members. The videos themselves are interesting, but forum members did try to perpetuate the fact that these were local Wyoming broadcast signal intrusions that caused headaches, hallucinations, etc.


 * The threads (requires a forums account which at this time costs $10):


 * http://archives.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2345461
 * http://archives.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2350410
 * Artificial Silence 21:28, 04/04/2007 [EDT]

What about Vrillion?
I find no mention of the Vrillion/Ashtar Galactic command incidnet which involed Southern Televeison in the UK?

ShakespeareFan00 15:01, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I haven't heard of it, but I'm intrigued. Hopefully someone who knows more can add it to the article. Rob T Firefly 14:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)


 * See Vrillon - Thanks ShakespeareFan00 11:43, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Reliable references have now been added to that article which should provide a basis for adding the matter to this article as well. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 03:38, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

Channel Seven Audio Takeover
Does anyone know any more about this? Interesting information here: http://danwarne.com/was-channel-7-hacked-by-jesus/ Clark Kent 06:57, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I've removed the word 'fuck' from the description of the channel 7 hijack. The phrase repeated is "Jesus Christ, help us all, Lord." This is clearly evident when viewing the above link. 66.9.126.26 00:05, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

As far as I know, this incident has been labelled as a standard audio glitch, and while a signal hijacking is a plausible theory as to why it happened, there's no reliable evidence to back it up. The whole section is gone for now. Feel free to reinstate it with appropriate citations, if there are any. 220.239.91.150 07:34, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Extraneous info in fictional events
I've cleaned up the fictional events again. Let's focus on this article's subject, which is broadcast signal intrusion. Wikilinking the films in that section with a short description of how broadcast signal intrusion was used in them is enough. We don't need to take up space here with who starred in them, who directed them, which companies released them, which caterers did craft services, etc. That information is already available on the films' own articles where it belongs. Rob T Firefly 05:00, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Lone star Broadcasting?
I seem to remember as a youth being told that in the west in the 70s or somesuch there was a splashscreen broadcast late at night that detailed "the Lone Star Broadcasting" station or something to that effect. But that that particular network had been off the air for years? --Frenk Melk 17:55, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Possible Events Section
The final two events are lacking key information, enough that I thought of taking them down. There's little way to confirm that these purported hijackings actually happened with what's there, so please help us out. What stations were affected? What programs were affected? Are there any citable articles about these incidents? 72.19.80.19 13:56, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

I've removed the description of the supposed French hijacking incident for several reasons: firstly, there is no citation to reference this event happening; secondly, there are inconsistencies in the account--if this was a morning talk show, why was the message observed around 8:30 pm local time?; lastly, a garbled or non-sensical word or phrase appearing on screen hardly constitutes broadcast signal intrusion--it could have been faulty chyron by studio personnel or even an accidental chyron overlap by a satellite provider or relay station. That the word described is nonsense lends to this theory. Certainly not as intriguing as the Australian and British audio interruptions. If someone can find info on this French event, it would be cool to learn more. Poodlemcmuffin 20:49, 15 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I am in agreement with your decision to remove the alleged French hijacking incident due to lack of citation. Like you point out, if someone can provide a source for this, a second look at the incident would be a good idea.  Labyrinth13 21:00, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Discussion about external links
Please don't restore this discussion. It has been removed as a courtesy to a departing user, via private request (OTRS 2007061510011776). If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me. Thanks,  Daniel  06:27, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

"Falun Gong is Good"?
OK. I had heard that individuals sympathetic to Falun Gong had intruded into the signals of at least one Chinese station with the message, "Falun Gong is Good". Should this be included? Orville Eastland 01:16, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Do you have a citation for it? SchuminWeb (Talk) 02:56, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Here are a few:   Orville Eastland 00:09, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Great! Then by all means, go to town.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:25, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

Fictional events
Just an update on the "fictional events" list for posterity's sake: the section was a list of occurrences of BSI in fiction which eventually spun off into its own article, which then got PROD deleted as a "directory of unassociated items, no commonality beyond happening to include a particular plot point." To avoid going through the same tedious cycle again in future, I believe we should probably avoid creating another such list in this article. Rob T Firefly 16:43, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Mst3k incident
I read something that said that there was an incident in montana where a theater sillouette imposed over the Olympics. I am not sure whether to include this in the article as there is little evidence as to whether this was a hack or not. Fireflyfan1 (talk) 14:30, 19 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Unless it's verifiable through reliable sources, it needs to be left off. SchuminWeb (Talk) 18:38, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Using labyrinth13.com as a source or link
This site fails WP:SPS and WP:ELNO as it is a book promotion website and cannot be considered a third party source.—Ash (talk) 08:53, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Porn movie broadcast instead of ITV!
I seem to recall an incident that happened (not sure when) somewhere in the north of England, where ITV programmes were replaced with a porn movie!

The cause was not a prank by university students during Rag Week - but by an employee at the transmitter - he played the movie and used one of the monitors as a video monitor - whether he knew what he was doing was unclear - but the monitor was supposed to be relaying ITV - instead, viewers to ITV saw an adult movie (the other channels were unaffected).

Arthurvasey (talk) 13:42, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

This line
Most TV and radio stations are extremely vulnerable, but lack of knowledge has kept this from being a problem.

Lack of knowledge of what? That they are extremely vulnerable, or how to jam the signal? The snare (talk) 04:12, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

CHCH TV - Gay Porn "Intrusion" of April 20
This morning 3 minutes of gay porn was broadcast during a morning news show on CHCH TV in Hamilton, Canada. . Not sure if it qualifies for this article, though after reading this source it appears it does. Thoughts? --Yankees 76 Talk 21:51, 20 April 2012 (UTC)