What no one includes in their report is the penalties for this intrusion. All of our equipment that could have been used for this was accounted for in locked storage verified by myself and the director of engineering just after I arrived for work the next morning. There was investigation by local police, FBI and FCC and no one was publicly charged. Who intrusion came from a viewer who was recording the program that night. Once the interference occurred we could not shut off the transmitter. WTTW did not have that ability and our remote control was multiplexed onto the microwave signal. In the case of WGN, they were in the process of installing new equipment and switched to that equipment right away. (our two stations were unique in our location and direction to transmitters) This would have allowed someone with a higher power transmitter or larger dish to have overcome our signals. If you draw a line between our stations and the transmitter sites at Sears Tower and John Hancock you will see that the line is very close to both transmitters. The truth is that person or persons unknown had some microwave equipment and set up in a line that intersects both of our stations.

Many of those are still in production or seeking a broadcast outlet. There has been a lot of discussion on this incident over the years and I have given several interviews (at least five over the last three years). My alarm is set for 4:44 AM to get to work. I started at 6AM the next morning and rarely made it past 10 PM. While they didn’t point real fingers at me, they did finally state that is highly unlikely that I did it and failed to mention that I was home in bed that night. This is the first show I have seen that even enters Jonathon Brandmeier into the discussion. Had they done some research they would have found that the one young guy was literally more than four hours drive from Chicago and would have needed to get to the north side of the city. Well of all the hype and programs about this incident, this one takes some liberties by ignoring some of the facts.

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