The short film Patrolling the Ether Was broadcast on this Sinclair broadcast group owned Television station in 1944?
WRGB WRGB, channel 6, is a television station licensed to Schenectady, New York, United States. WRGB is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, and is the CBS affiliate for the Albany-Schenectady-Troy television market. The station shares its studio and office facility with co-owned WCWN (channel 45) in Niskayuna, New York, and its transmitter is based near Voorheesville, New York. WCWN additionally carries a simulcast of WRGB's main channel for the convenience of UHF viewers unable to receive WRGB's VHF signal.
Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion was a television signal hijacking that occurred in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on the evening of November 22, 1987, by an unknown man (or group of unknown individuals). It is an example of what is known in the television business as broadcast signal intrusion. The intruder was successful in interrupting two broadcast television stations within the course of three hours. After a brief and only partially successful attempt to break into the signal of intended target of WGN-TV, the signal pirates succeeded in getting their broadcast intruded onto WTTW during an episode of the "Doctor Who" serial "Horror of Fang Rock". The pirate broadcast, which lasted 90 seconds and was pre-recorded on videotape, featured an individual disguised as television character Max Headroom parodying WGN and television in general. The incident made national headlines and the people responsible have never been identified.