2020 Jonathian broadcast hijacking

On the 27th of December, 2020, several individuals who are yet to be identified hijacked all main terrestrial television networks in Jonathia, as well as several national specialty digital television channels and at least one local station from every Jonathian province. The attackers appeared to be Fortlese nationalists, and they broadcasted from an abandoned apartment building in a rural MIssouri.
== Incident ==
=== JBC ===
At 10:49am, all JBC networks with the exception of JBC One cut out to a black screen, before fading in to white text shown in the Helvetica font, on a red background. The text apparently read "We know.", and scrolled from left to right several times. JBC One was later hijacked as well, and showed the same footage, albeit with an orange background, and in the Comic Sans font instead of Helvetica.
=== NBC ===
NBC, as well as NBC News and CNBC, were later hijacked at 10:52am, just as the Today show was going into an ad break. The footage glitched out, as white noise played in the background. Then, several Streame videos uploaded prior to 2008 played, but were sped up to play at 56 seconds per 1 second, before cutting out to a highly modified C11 test card, and then switching to the "We know." scrolling text playing on JBC One.
=== FOX Jonathia ===
FOX Jonathia was actually covering the incident at the time when the channel became victim to the situation. They were affected by the hack at 10:56am, and footage was replaced by the C11 ident from 2011, before cutting to the "We know." scrolling text from JBC One, before showing a picture of a burning Gelta City, and then cutting out the feed altogether, changing to a No Signal screen on the digital feed and television noise on the analogue feed, effectively knocking out the FOX broadcast.
=== C11 ===
C11's feed was cut out at 11:00am exactly, and was replaced with white text in Calibri on a black background with only the C11 watermark remaining. The text on screen stated the following:
"We will not stop this torment. The reason we've hid for so long is because you people are after us. Yes, we're talking to you, DOI. DOJ. And the police forces of the nation. We will not stop until you all have fallen. Glory to Fortland. Long live the cause of communism. (There was also text at the bottom of the screen, although viewers could not make it out.)"
The C11 feed was then knocked out.
=== 4NET/TV7 ===
4NET and TV7 were both knocked out at exactly 2 seconds into 11:11am. Both their feeds were replaced with the Fortlese national anthem being played over a series of adult-oriented video clips. This footage repeated until the anthem was complete, before the feeds were cut out.
=== Regional broadcasts ===
The hackers also hijacked all networks on the channels 5, 8, 9, and 201 at 11:22am, where they froze the footage, played a false EAS where they broadcast an audio version of the message shown on C11, then played the "We know." scrolling text, before finally crashing the footage.
=== Affected stations ===
* JBC One
* JBC Two
* JBC Three
* JBC Four
* JBC News
* JBC Parliament
* JBC Kids
* NBC
* NBC News
* CNBC
* 4NET
* FOX Jonathia
* TV7
* C11
* Regional networks:
** All 8NET local variants
** TV5 St. Gelta
** Five Network (Miller)
** Missouri Independent Television
** Jetzeburg Live
** North Local
** UPB
** Minelese Local
** 201 Seven Broadcasting
** Leafland Local
** Arizaian Public Television
** Independent Broadcasting Authority (Jersey, Lynskip)
** Lollese TV9
All online feeds remained unaltered, although some aired a technical difficulties card.
== Aftermath ==
The affected channels were taken off the air at 11:30am, before returning to normal service 11 minutes later. All channels issued apology notices prior to the return to normal broadcasting.
The perpetrators were never found. Signal trackers found the footage to be coming from an abandoned building in Missouri, but the attackers were never found.
Following the incident, many took to social media to share footage and information on what had just happened. Several celebrities sent messages on Chatspace. Below are some of the messages.
* Uhhhhhh...what the hell did TV7 just air? (Lee Walmsley, TV7 News)
* @JBC @TV4 @NBC @C11 @FOX_jn @TV7off hey you all your channels are down (Danielle Chapelle, singer)
* JBC would like to send a formal apology about what we just aired. We had been hijacked, and had no way to stop the footage. Even when we fixed the footage, it would just switch to the transmitter we switched it to. The JBC is currently working with the @dep_inv_jn to solve this mystery. (JBC)
* wtf @NBC i thought you were family-oriented this is creepy (Harry Parker, The Tonight Show, NBC)
* Stay off television today, folks. There's a hijacking. (Jonas Albert, prime minister)
== See also ==
* List of Jonathian television channels
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