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Today 7:13 am  #1


Here's a real YouTube oddity - Bizarre Hijacking Of CFNY-FM (Late 80s)

Maybe you get these from time to time, a downright weird and/or random recommendation on YouTube. It happens to me a fair bit. Recently, one such recommendation was a recording of a supposed hijacking of CFNY's broadcast signal in the late 1980s. What it even is is difficult for me to describe, but it sounds like something that's deliberately meant to be jarring and unsettling for the listener. As far as I'm concerned, this is most likely one of those modern social media attempts at "Analog horror" whereby a depiction is created in modern times of something frightening, baffling, disturbing or a combination thereof of something that was supposedly broadcast in the era of the prevalence of analog storage media, typically the 1980s to the 2000s. In any case, analog horror simply means "fake vintage recording" and there are many examples of it that I find very creative and entertaining. A thread regarding this was also posted on the Lost Media Wiki forum, but that never went anywhere, nor did the comment section on the YouTube video see any significant response. Does anybody with any memory of that era recall anything the likes of this happening on local airwaves?

Last edited by tdotwriter (Today 7:17 am)

 

Today 7:30 am  #2


Re: Here's a real YouTube oddity - Bizarre Hijacking Of CFNY-FM (Late 80s)

That's even more bizarre than the Max Headroom signal hijacking of the two Chicago TV stations in 1987.


PJ


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Today 8:44 am  #3


Re: Here's a real YouTube oddity - Bizarre Hijacking Of CFNY-FM (Late 80s)

The 'old guard' from the glory years carrying out a raid? 🤔

 

Today 8:47 am  #4


Re: Here's a real YouTube oddity - Bizarre Hijacking Of CFNY-FM (Late 80s)

Easily Amused wrote:

The 'old guard' from the glory years carrying out a raid? 🤔

Whoever did it - it was definitely done from the studio itself....the Van Halen fade-out, the next song starting clean as the piece ends...

Maybe a. protest for having to play "jump" on CFNY?