ABC NY HD Hacked!

[AirPumpClock]

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[RomanClock]

lol XD

[Joey 57857]

I wanna meet this guy and shake his hand.

[joliet_jane]

Is their color bars pattern using... comic sans?!

EDIT:
I've been thinking about it more, and that might actually have been a mess-up at the TV station itself. Control room guys are capable of tomfoolery also.

It could be a test pattern, but that doesn't explain the scary music.

EDIT 2:
It probably was just an HD test pattern.  But still... comic sans?!

[Flounderpa]

I believe it was a hack, it doesn't match to the usual bars of out of signal, and it's supposed to don't be any text, less if it is Comic Sans

[salt]

This reminds me of some guy hijacking some TV network while they were showing the old Doctor Who if I believe. It was many years ago.


It was also very, very creepy.

[joliet_jane]

Check it out, the same thing has happened before!
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I'm 100% certain that this is an HD test pattern made for internal use, which is why it's so informal.
"This is a string of 12 pixel high, 8 pixel wide white drop shadowed characters crawling in from the right."  Who would ever care about that if s/he wasn't a technician?

This reminds me of some guy hijacking some TV network while they were showing the old Doctor Who if I believe. It was many years ago.
It was also very, very creepy.

The Max Headroom incident.  It's creepy only because of garbled sound.  I'm amused by it because a) He actually went to the trouble to make a Max Headroom moving background out of metal roofing and b) pulling his pants down and getting spanked with a flyswatter at the end and c) never getting caught.

The Wyoming Incident... now that's scary.

EDIT:
And here's the origin of the original sound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LCtWwIQ7mg
Just a Dolby Digital logo presentation, perfect to use as a sound test.