Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion
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title:
Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion
text:
On April 27, 1986, American electrical engineer and business owner John R. MacDougall jammed the Home Box Office (HBO) satellite signal on Galaxy 1 during a showing of the film The Falcon and the Snowman. The message, broadcast for four and a half minutes, was seen by the eastern half of the United States protesting HBO's rates for satellite dish owners, which he considered too expensive. MacDougall was working at his second job as an operations engineer at the Central Florida Teleport uplink st
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1986 signal intrusion of HBOs satellite feed
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_broadcast_signal_intrusion
date created:
2006-06-13T00:54:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T23:27:34Z
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