Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the internet!
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am talking about the Top 10 Scary Broadcast
interruptions Part 2!
Mr Danny Burke hosted part one but he has flown the coop so it is up to me to bring
you a part two!
Don’t worry though, he still exists and you can find him doing his own thing!
You should go say hi…after you watch this video, anyway… you get the idea…you’re
watching TV, you are enjoying your regularly scheduled content then all of a sudden the
broadcast is interrupted and you are shown something you didn’t expect – what horror.
Before we get into this video, why don’t you guys let me know what your favourite show
is on TV or Youtube – At the moment mine is Queer Eye, or Outlander, and of course
Alan Partridge’s This Time.
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OKAY coming into number 10 The Earthquake In September 2017, A Mexican news Station,
Foro TV, was broadcasting live on air from Mexico City when the studio was hit with a
7.1 Magnitude Earthquake.
The reporter at first looks calm and determined to finish his statement, but then you see
the fear in his eyes.
Have a look.
CLIP 1 THEN, what is even scaier, is when the camera cuts to another shot and you can
see the equipment in the studio swinging violently overhead.
Have a look.
CLIP 2.
I think if I were the reported I would be more concerned about one of the heavy lights
smashing my head in that I would be the ground opening up!
Imagine seeing that on live television.
How horrifying.
The earthquake was the deadliest to hit Mexico in more than 30 years.
9 - The Sexy Superbowl The Superbowl is a family friendly viewing
activity – kids and adults alike get together to watch their favourite teams, but in 2009
80,000 viewers in Tucson got an unexpected eyeful.
Standard Definition viewers had their Superbowl comcast coverage interrupted by hardcore porn
for an eyewatering 37 seconds.
It seems that a cable employee was behind the interruption and Comcast cable had to
fork out 800 000 dollars in compensation to viewers who had seen the saucy footage in
place of the Pittsburgh Cardinals game.
8 - Anonymous Hack Fox News In 2015, hacktivist, Anonymous, known for
their creepy smiling Guy Fawkes masks and altered voices, took over a live Fox News
broadcast.
Fox News was conducting a euthanasia interview with Dr Jack Kevorkian when Anonymous took
over.
Have a watch.
CLIP.
They berated Fix for purposefully scaring people about terrorism and covering up corporate
corruption.
Anonymous said : you have sacrificed your journalistic integrity for the dollar.
Unfortunately for you, the dollar cannot stop an idea who’s time has come.
They end by saying they have been watching – they know what they have been doing and
that they have been poisoning the minds of America for too long.
Anynoymous does not forgive and does not forget.
Scary… especially because of the mask….
But this is the kind of horror movie I enjoy.
7 - Captain Midnight I love a good STRIKE story and incidents of
standing up to THE MAN and this is exactly what Captain Midnight was attempting to do.
Captain Midnight was a character constructed by a HBO electrical engineer who was annoyed
at the channel for raising their subscription prices to 12.95 a month, which is the equivalent
of around 30 bucks these days.
While that doesn’t sound that scary, takeover included a threat – Showtime Movie Channel:
Beware! – here is a clip of the moment the takeover happened: CLIP.
Then there was a period of black and white messed signal…which was kind of chilling.
Check it out.
One of the commenters on the video added some further insight into the incident, BNSF1995
said: All of the crackling throughout is the HBO broadcasting station trying to up their
power, and Captain Midnight fighting back by uppng his power.
Eventually, HBO lost and was forced to stop at risk of blowing their transmitters.?
6 - Monsters In Marquette Zombies?
In America?
You heard it here first!
In 2013 an emergency broadcast went out on two television stations affiliated with PBS
and ABC in Marquette, Michigan.
The stations were infiltrated by trickster hackers who put out an alert on to say “Civil
authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their
graves and attacking the living.
Follow the messages on screen that will be updated as information become available.
Do not attempt to approach or apprehend these bodies as they are considered extremely dangerous.”
Some people were genuinely concerned, others saw the funny side whilst some people thought
it was disrespectful.
I think I would see the funny side but I get that this is not what you want to hear from
your trusted local news stations.
The local station manager and news director, Cynthia Thompson issued a statement on behalf
of ABC 10 saying that the channel was working on rectifying the hack.
5 - The CNN coup d’etat On July 15th 2016 CNN Turk, - the Turkish
branch of the CNN Television network - was taken over by force by rebelling soldiers.
As the CNN Turk were reporting on the Coup against President Erdogan, Armed members of
the country’s military stormed the studio and forced broadcasters off air.
I can’t find the moment that anchors were actually dragged off air, but I can find some
pandemonium in the studio.
One guy goes up to the camera to try and explain what is happening but he doesn’t realize
the microphones are off.
CLIP 1.
Employees filmed the chaos as armed militia dragged them from the building.
How tarrying does this look.
CLIP 2.
Can you imagine being a Turkish citizen watching TV and seeing this all happen before your
very eyes live?
Sometimes watching live coverage of Brexit is stressful but this is a whole new level.
4- The Buzzer So this is a bit of a broadcast mystery right
here.
UVB-76, also known as the Buzzer is a radio station that broadcasts on the frequency of
4625 KHZ.
The radio station is pretty boring… or is it.
It isa series of buzzes repeated every 25 minutes for 24 hours a day….
It usually sounds a bit like this.
* CLIP* BUT sometimes the broadcast is interrupted by a voice speaking in Russian.
The station has been noted since the 70s and there are all kinds of conspiracy theories
as to what the beeps and interruptions mean.
On Christmas eve 1997, the voice interruption came again at 9pm GMT.
This time after a series of non sensical numbers and letters, the names Boris, Roman, Olga,
Mikhail, Anna and Larisa were mentioned.
Since 2010, voice messages have increased and a lot of people have come up with many
speculative reasons.
The general consensus is that it is a Russian spy channel.
Shortly before the 2016 Presidential election, the Buzzer was broadcasting more than ever.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
3 - THIS IS WAR A declaration of war interrupting live TV?
Terrifying…especially considering the likelihood that if you’re watching this channel, you
live in the country now at war.
In July 2006, Lebanese fighters fired shots over the Israeli boarder, leading to a 34-day
war in which Israel retaliated hard.
Israeli hackers took control of the Islamic Lebanese Political Party, Hezbollah’s, TV
station with chilling message of war.
The hijacked signals started showing images of dead Hezbollah Guerilla soldiers.
An image of the political party leader Hessan Nasrallah was then shown, along with the sound
of gunshots and a voice saying Your Day Is Coming.
Help.
2 - The Christine Chubbuck Broadcast Christine Chubbuck was a 29 year old news
reported who worked at WTOG and WXLT – TV in Florida.
It seems that the reporter was depressed and had joked about suicide, but on the morning
of the 15th July 1974, the young woman took over Suncoast Digest – something she hadn’t
done before.
She delivered 8 minutes of news, and then a film reel that was supposed to show a restaurant
shooting jammed.
The anchor shrugged it off and calmly said: in keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing
you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first:
attempted suicide.”
She then shot herself behind her right ear and died of her injuries live on ear.
The technical director cut the footage as soon as they could but thousands of people
watching saw the death.
Later it was revealed that the whole event had been scripted by Christine, who must have
planned her baffling takeover.
Unless you saw the live footage, you will never see the incident.
The tapes of the death have been destroyed.
There was a Sundance movie starring Rebecca Hall where the infamous moment was re-enacted.
Here is a clip.
Finally at number one….
1 - The Assassin This was one of the scariest and most awful
TV interruptions of all time, and out of respect for the dead I am not going to show you any
footage, I’ll just tell you the story.
In August 2015, two local TV reporters were shot dead in the middle of a live news broadcast
for WDJB in Virginia at 6.45 in the morning.
Reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were broadcasting a live interview with
an official from the Chamber of Commerce when they came under fire.
The official, Vicki Gardner, was harmed but survived.
The gunman was a former reporter at the same station – Vester Lee Flanagan – known
under on air name Bryce Williams.
The perpetrator shot himself hours afterwards following a police pursuit.
Audiences saw the murder live on air, which was quickly cut back to the studio.
Flanagan had recorded the incident on a go pro and uploaded it to the internet.
Luckily it has since been removed.
Parker and Ward’s co-workers were offered counselling.
Well that was horrifying was it not.
That was the Top 10 Scary Broadcast Interruptions Part 2.
Wjhat did you think to this list?
Honestly I feel a bit upset so here is a clip from my favourite news interruption of all
time.
BEAUTIFUL!
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Comments from Top 10 Scary Harry Potter Theories.
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Everyone: Why did we ever need to know this??
Helena Berthiaume: All hail the Slytherin Queen! #slyrin4ever X'D love your vids.?
Dawn said: When I got this notification my first thought was ‘Rebecca BETTER be the
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