User blog:SpongeBot678/SpongeBot678's Unsolved Mysteries (parody): The Fox Kids Hijacking Incident of August 3, 2018

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Welcome back to SpongeBot678's Unsolved Mysteries. This episode, we're discussing the Fox Kids hijacking incident of August 3, 2018.

On the night of August 3, 2018, at 10:00pm UK time, just as Fox Kids was about to transition into their late-night adult programming block, Fox Nights, suddenly, the feed cut to test bars. And then, a bunch of random, shocking, slightly disturbing and eerie clips were played, including clips from series that had aired on Fox Nights and Fox Kids before, such as SpongeBob With Pluto and Dunces and Dragons. Static was then played, then the Fox Nights content warning, and then the opening to SBFW GO!

(NOTE: Another odd thing about this is SBFW GO! had not aired on Fox Nights in over a year since said broadcast. The rest of the night went on without problems, though.)

Let me just first say is that researching this was the hardest thing ever. Very little sites even acknowledge this incident happened. I can't get any sort of evidence showing just where this incident happened (usually hijackings only can get their signal in one area at a time), and it took weeks to find the only video clip on the Internet of this incident, which I downloaded and reuploaded onto the YouTube video linked here.

It's also worth noting that this wasn't the first incident Fox Kids had with their signal getting messed up. On January 17, 2017, for several minutes Fox Kids' video feed, during an episode of Dunces and Dragons, was replaced with video from the Playboi Channel, while the audio feed continued being Sir SpongeBob and Sir Patrick. This incident occurred shortly after 1 p.m. in Springfield, Missouri only.

Another incident occurred on February 7, 2018, this time in Nashville, Tennessee, from the hours of 3 a.m. to 5 a.m, in which Fox Kids broadcast Sandystation. Spongecast issued a statement claiming it was an error in which Sandystation accidentally aired on multiple channels that night, despite Fox Kids being the only one reported.

Now, I was able to find much info about the previous two incidents mentioned. The first one was even mentioned briefly on Monday Morning Live. Why does nobody have anything about this? Does nobody care because it was fake, I mean less then a minute? Is Fox Kids looking into this? We don't know, and we may never know.