About: Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion

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On April 27, 1986, American electrical engineer and business owner John R. MacDougall (using the pseudonym "Captain Midnight") 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 (accounting for more than half of HBO's 14.6 million subscribers at the time) 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 station in Ocala, Florida, and vied with a technician at HBO's communications center in Hauppauge, New York, for control of the transmission. The technician attempted to increase upli

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  • On April 27, 1986, American electrical engineer and business owner John R. MacDougall (using the pseudonym "Captain Midnight") 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 (accounting for more than half of HBO's 14.6 million subscribers at the time) 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 station in Ocala, Florida, and vied with a technician at HBO's communications center in Hauppauge, New York, for control of the transmission. The technician attempted to increase uplink power but gave up because of the risk of damaging the satellite. MacDougall eventually abandoned his control of the satellite. Although the intrusion was a minor annoyance to viewers, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), with assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), investigated the jamming. After the FCC identified the transmitters and stations equipped with the specific character generator evidently used during the broadcast signal intrusion, MacDougall surrendered to the authorities, after which he was served with a subpoena due to a tourist having overheard him discussing the incident on a payphone off Interstate 75. Under an agreement with the prosecutor, he plea bargained and was sanctioned with a $5,000 fine, one-year unsupervised probation, and a one-year suspension of his amateur radio license. The jamming received much attention in the U.S., with one executive dubbing the intrusion an act of "video terrorism". As a consequence of the incident, the United States Congress passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (18 U.S.C. § 1367), making satellite hijacking a felony. The Automatic Transmitter Identification System was also developed in response to this incident. (en)
  • HBO 캡틴 미드나잇 전파납치 사건은 1986년 미국의 전기 기술자 존 맥두걸이 HBO 채널의 전파를 훔쳐서 HBO 방송사에게 항의를 표현한 사건이다. (ko)
  • 午夜队长干扰（英語：Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion）是一起发生在1986年4月27日的电视信号侵扰事件。该事件由卫星电视经销商约翰·迈克道格尔（John R. MacDougall，化名为午夜队长）制造，他劫持了HBO的卫星讯号、干扰了电影《》的播出，以抗议HBO将电视讯号加密 。 (zh)
  • Инцидент Капитана Полночь — вторжение в эфир телеканала HBO, произошедшее 27 апреля 1986 года в 00:32 EST. Американский инженер-электрик и предприниматель Джон Р. Макдугалл под псевдонимом «Капитан Полночь» вторгся в спутниковый сигнал HBO во время показа фильма «Агенты Сокол и Снеговик» и вывел на экран протестное сообщение, в котором выразил своё недовольство платой в размере $12,95 в месяц за доступ к каналу. Сообщение транслировалось в течение четырёх с половиной минут. (ru)
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  • Captain Midnight (en)
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  • Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S. (en)
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  • KA4WJA (en)
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  • Message seen in 1986, as superimposed on the SMPTE color bars (en)
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  • Illegally operating a satellite uplink transmitter (en)
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  • $5,000 fine (en)
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  • 1986-04-27 (xsd:date)
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  • Four and a half minutes (en)
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  • To protest against charges for access to scrambled satellite channels (en)
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  • John R. MacDougall (en)
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  • American (en)
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  • Resulted in the development of the Automatic Transmitter Identification System (en)
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  • Electrical engineer, business owner (en)
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  • Captain Midnight (en)
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  • Fine and probation (en)
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  • John R. MacDougall (en)
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  • Ocala, Florida, U.S. (en)
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  • Captain Midnight (en)
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  • HBO 캡틴 미드나잇 전파납치 사건은 1986년 미국의 전기 기술자 존 맥두걸이 HBO 채널의 전파를 훔쳐서 HBO 방송사에게 항의를 표현한 사건이다. (ko)
  • 午夜队长干扰（英語：Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion）是一起发生在1986年4月27日的电视信号侵扰事件。该事件由卫星电视经销商约翰·迈克道格尔（John R. MacDougall，化名为午夜队长）制造，他劫持了HBO的卫星讯号、干扰了电影《》的播出，以抗议HBO将电视讯号加密 。 (zh)
  • Инцидент Капитана Полночь — вторжение в эфир телеканала HBO, произошедшее 27 апреля 1986 года в 00:32 EST. Американский инженер-электрик и предприниматель Джон Р. Макдугалл под псевдонимом «Капитан Полночь» вторгся в спутниковый сигнал HBO во время показа фильма «Агенты Сокол и Снеговик» и вывел на экран протестное сообщение, в котором выразил своё недовольство платой в размере $12,95 в месяц за доступ к каналу. Сообщение транслировалось в течение четырёх с половиной минут. (ru)
  • On April 27, 1986, American electrical engineer and business owner John R. MacDougall (using the pseudonym "Captain Midnight") 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 (accounting for more than half of HBO's 14.6 million subscribers at the time) 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 station in Ocala, Florida, and vied with a technician at HBO's communications center in Hauppauge, New York, for control of the transmission. The technician attempted to increase upli (en)
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  • Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion (en)
  • HBO 캡틴 미드나잇 전파납치 사건 (ko)
  • Инцидент Капитана Полночь (ru)
  • 午夜队长干扰 (zh)
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