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HawaiiYou
PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 10:56 pm 
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In 1987, one of the strangest things in television history occurred. Chicago Television stations were automatically taken over by a Mysterious Masked Man. Was this just a couple of amateur hackers playing around, or something more sinister?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t ... 1466851347


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 25, 2021 11:28 pm 
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Supplementary information :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKnwhokvgxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjeUuakHsLw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBOhFGmbSIs
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Don’t want it to be overshadowed by the lameness of a HY post, but yeah, it was a pretty cool/important moment for television.
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KDdidit wrote:
Don’t want it to be overshadowed by the lameness of a HY post, but yeah, it was a pretty cool/important moment for television.

About twenty years ago, I mentioned to someone that I used to watch Doctor Who on Channel 11, and what I meant is that I watched about five episodes over ten years. But the next day, a box full of VHS tapes--the Kodak ones with the yellow stickers, the ones, purchased from Walgreens, with the different sized dots on the box--appeared on my porch. The first (and maybe only) one I watched had this goofy interruption on it. It was disturbing and hilarious, and I actually remember watching it live.

Whoever was behind the mask mentioned Chuck Swirsky, I think, before getting spanked with a fly swatter. What the hell. The Sun-Times said that, theoretically, the stunt cost over $100,000 to pull off.

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Saw it when it happened live on channel 9.

Next day everyone thought it was Kevin Mathews.

Loop phone lines were lit up talking about it.
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Back then the nightly local news sports segment was invaluable. I knew the staggered time the sports would air on each station like clockwork, and click around to see each. People didn't avoid the local news like nows shit shows demand.
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The spanking video was a bit disturbing.

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this kinda shit would never happen to George Michael during The Sports Machine!

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SuperNintendoHjalmarsson wrote:
this kinda shit would never happen to George Michael during The Sports Machine!


Not sure.

Let's go to the tape....

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a fine show.

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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
The spanking video was a bit disturbing.


It was you wasn't it?
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Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote:
The spanking video was a bit disturbing.


It was you wasn't it?


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SuperNintendoHjalmarsson wrote:
a fine show.

Sheesh. Those were the days. I know the Midwest closes at about 7 pm on Sundays, but even tv closed at 11:00 on Sunday nights. It was Dave Allen or the Bears shows and then 8 channels of nothing (later changed to 40 channels of nothing when we got cable in 1987).

Remember that Nite-Owl show on Channel 32? Man, I though humanity was going somewhere when I finally woke myself up to watch that. Here's one where the BrewCrew were in first play, and Pete Vukovich was 15-4. They even had ET watching!

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is there a guy who has had a more stress free, well paid career than Dan Roan?

The good old days when working for WGN was a lifetime job

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good dolphin wrote:
is there a guy who has had a more stress free, well paid career than Dan Roan?

The good old days when working for WGN was a lifetime job


I just saw where he's retiring soon.

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