Network 89

In 1987 up until 2002 a small television company in a local town from Cleveland bought rights to a cable company and called it "Vision Review" The cable had up to 100 channels but one stood out for being titled the most obscure and problematic with its scheduling.
It was called "Network 89" and it claimed to be both a children's and adults channel, the only problem is that the scheduling was rumoured all over the place
For one instance a mother complained in 1995 after she witnessed her son watching a Scooby Doo episode which was airing as part of a marathon, was randomly cut and replaced with Village of the Damned halfway through an episode.
The channel was also known for having a weak signal and would cut to technical difficulty screens up to 6 to 7 times a day.
But eventually, one day, while airing a episode of the Flintstones in 1999, it cut to black and showed a different technical issue screen then what it would normally show.
I got contact with someone who claimed to have witnessed it, and this is what they said verbatim:
"It was a slightly moving picture of a tall lanky thin man trembling on a black backdrop... the man was pitch white he was hunched slightly and had no face at all. The technical difficulties text popped up on the top left corner but it looked like it was handwritten poorly by a 7 year old"
"The faceless man had fingers that nearly reached down to his knees and the handwriting suddenly changed to look more sloppy and jumbled"
"After at least 5 minutes or so it eventually just cut to black entirely and after a minute i think, it went back to another Hanna Barbera cartoon."
"It was harmless yet still looked quite out of place for a tv channel to have and i don't even know if anyone else saw it that day"
Eventually, around 2002, the company decided to give in and sold its TV cable to another TV station for a quick buck.
Even though this was pretty harmless, it's still mysterious.
Written by JamesDrawsStuff
Category:Television