Re:The Cold Case of the Max Headroom Signal Intrusion
by SwellJoe on Thursday April 12, 2018 @02:02PM
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That would explain it. And, would be effective.
In the old days you'd need someone at both ends to make the change, though, and towers are normally unmanned. Which may explain why it lasted so long with the first transmission and was short in the second...maybe the station had someone standing by at the tower to make the change when/if Max returned. I dunno. Our tower was a good 30 minute drive from the station (which is common, I think...stations are usually centrally located, but the towers are out in the boonies a bit because of the need for cheap land and freedom to stand up a heckin' big tower).
Re:The Cold Case of the Max Headroom Signal Intrusion
by tiben_ on Friday April 13, 2018 @07:43AM
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> Which may explain why it lasted so long with the first transmission and was short in the second...
Seems the opposite, first (short without sound) was on WGN around 9:15 pm and second (longer) on WTTW after eleven
The version I read said they changed link frequencies. Presumably they have a secondary link on a different frequency for when a transmitter is down or they need to broadcast two feeds.