The Entertainment near you incident (1990)

Ever since the late 1970’s, there had been many recorded cases of television intrusions, the most well known being the infamous Max Headroom incident. But in one particular case, there was a television broadcast intrusion where its existence fell into obscurity before footage of the incident resurfaced.
This intrusion was targeted to Nick Jr. back in October of 1990 that managed to spread to three states. Many people who’ve witnessed the intrusion were left unnerved questioning about how and why this happened.
After a promo for Noozles has finished, another promo for Fred Penner’s Place just started before Nick Jr.’s signal suddenly switched into static. Once the channel gained another signal, on screen showed a person covered in a dark colored blanket that has a drawing of a smiley face with grinning teeth on it right behind a dark gray background. It holds up a stick pointing at a piece of paper that reads “ENTERTAINMENT NEAR YOU”, with the U in “You” being spammed.
The unidentified person then switches sides on screen every one second as an unsettling ambient noise plays in the background. The same person then appears in front of the camera holding a paper with the word “Fun” and a smiley face on it. If people listen closely, someone’s voice can be heard with bad quality audio, saying “Prime time for Fun time”.
It repeats again, this time with the person switching from the right side to the left side once. After the voice says the same thing again, the unknown person stays at the right side of the screen this time, then being in front of the camera for one last time as a much more deteriorated quality version of the voice saying “Prime time for Fun time” plays. Then, it cuts out to a black screen.
Not too long after, the drawing of the smiling face appears again, this time, up close to the camera in a dark room. Three seconds in, text that reads “funs over” in all lowercase appears in the bottom right corner of the screen. Many people were expecting some sort of jumpscare, but without warning, a low quality recording can be heard. It’s hard to make out what was being said in the recording, but by hearing the low quality recording, it sounds like someone is disappointed about something, presumably about “Fun time” being over.
Afterwards, the signal cuts out and remains on a black screen for a couple of seconds before showing a technical difficulties screen. Executives operating the station were confused about what was happening during this TV intrusion, but afterwards, Nick Jr. carried on with normal broadcasting without any interruptions and any knowledge of this incident was obscured for a long time. To this day, no one knows any information about the perpetrators of this intrusion.
Category:Nick Jr.
Category:Hijackings
Category:TV