Talk:Broadcast signal intrusion
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[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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:
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- "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)
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- 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)
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[edit] "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)
[edit] 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)
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- Through a bit of searching, I found that there's a bit of a theory that it's some sort of alternate reality game. [1] [2] If nothing else, the concensus seems to be that there never was any true hijacking involved. Tacubus 09:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
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- 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).
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- 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)
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It appears this was all an elaborate prank from our friends at Something Awful 66.9.126.26 22:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[3]
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- 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)
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[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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)
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- See Vrillon - Thanks ShakespeareFan00 11:43, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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)
