The Sentinel: Radio Station reports blackout
BALDWIN HEIGHTS --"Normally, I'd attribute this to ice on the transmitter, but we looked: it was clear as the proverbial bell," says Gabriel Marcone, a technician and sometime program director at KFMC, a radio station broadcasting a blend of talk radio and "an eclectic mix of music", under the aegis of Network Media. He and three other station workers were launching a test for a new broadcast line-up, scheduled to become a new evening feature starting on January 1st, when he reports "really strange interference" which disrupted the transmission. "I've been working in this field since I was in college," says the forty-seven year old former political studies major, "and I haven't heard anything like this. It was as if someone just jacked the signal and borrowed it for five minutes, then it was gone."
Mr. Marcone goes on to say that "some kind of movie soundtrack type music" started to play, and then a female voice began to speak. His assistant, Erica Fermi, jotted down part of the announcement, which ran in part thus:
"Reality is in an unfamiliar place, and dreams are within reality. And the truth is within your heart. But people must act of their own free will, or nothing will change at all. So you must find your lost self on your own..." After that, the foreign signal cut out and Mr. Marcone and his crew were able to regain control of their uplink.
Security detected no intruders in the building, and it is believed that someone outside may have "hacked" into the signal.
