On: The Cold Case of the Max Headroom Signal Intrusion

[krapp]

When I was working as an air control monkey at a local television station, on the overnight shift, it was common (and absolutely forbidden under any circumstances) to route the cable box or an unused satellite feed into the preset bus of the production switcher and watch it (this was before the transition to digital, so somebody had to manually switch some things and there were still tapes involved.)

Nevertheless, I heard someone who was definitely not me once routed something which shall not be described up and it somehow ended up on the air.

So yes, accidents definitely happen, and they don't even always require technical savvy.