Radio station hijacked by anti-Trump messaging

Spero ^ | 1/31/17 | Martin Barillas

[markomalley]

Radio stations in South Carolina, Kentucky, and several other states claim that their signals were hijacked in recent days, interrupted by an obscene rap song that denounced President Donald Trump.  A station in Salem SC was hacked on January 30 by a rap that played continuously for 15 minutes.

 

According to WFBS-FM, hackers hijacked the signal thorugh its internet-connected antennas. The station was able to recover the IP address of the hackers, and reported it to the Federal Communications Commission.

 

Similar incidents have occurred in recent days in Washington State, Kentucky and Texas. In Mooresville NC, a cable television provider was hijacked, while hackers hijacked a Louisiville KY station on January 27, broadcasting anti-Trump messaging.

 

On January 27, nonprofit Crescent Hill Radio WCHQ issued its first post about the hack on the afternoon of January 27. "OK, not funny. some one has hacked into out transmitter tower, and the FM was playing a mp3 clip repeatedly of %$^# Donald Trump," the post read. According to the station, it was a clip of the song “FDT (F***Donald Trump) that interrupted the feed.. WCHQ Program director Gary Sampson reiterated that the the messaging in the rap was against station policy.

[PghBaldy]

This has to be a federal crime.

[Terry Mross]

This is good news for anyone wanting to start a revolution. They can control the media. I wish someone would hack CNN and continually broadcast a pro Trump message.

[bigbob]

Been done, way before the interwebs...you just needed Lenny and Squiggy and their microwave-dish equipped black van:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqlJvGvtOvY

[TXBlair]

That’s sick! It reminds me, though, of when I was in high school and a disgruntled deejay at B93 FM in Austin locked/barricaded himself in the booth and played Hit the Road, Jack non-stop for several DAYS. It was nuts...and hilarious! It was like a train wreck that you couldn’t turn away from (or couldn’t turn off, in this case); you were sick of hearing the song, but you didn’t want to change stations and miss out if something even weirder happened on air. I can’t remember if he’d been fired and so he did this, or not, but if not, he certainly got fired afterward, lol.

These hackers should be prosecuted bigly!

[treetopsandroofs]

FWIW...

https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us

[Gene Eric]

It certainly is. The broadcast spectrum is federally licensed.

[fruser1]

“internet-connected antennas”

Yes, let’s make EVERYTHING hackable.

[aomagrat]

This is what happens when you replace DJ’s with computers.