Betsy Stewart signal hijacking

The Betsy Stewart signal hijackings were a series of two events that occurred on the weekend of March 19th - 20th, 2021, when two television channels were hijacked by a video pirate, better known as the Pincher, who showed a clip of an old episode of a soap opera called "As The World Turns". The first incident took place at 9pm on Kidimax during an episode of Willa's Wild Life. The second incident occurred the next day on The JH, during an episode of Lillian Plays.

Kidimax
The first of two broadcast signal intrusions took place during a Willa's Wild Life episode called "Hidden Treasure" on Kidimax. The screen froze during a scene where Willa was checking out what was in the ‘gift’, and winds up causing a lot of chaos when she finds out it was a vacuum cleaner. After about 2 seconds, the screen turns black and white, this time it went to a different scene. A little girl named Betsy Stewart shows up, going to her father and uncle Dan. After about a minute and 20 seconds, an alert engineer finally put the scene off the air, and Willa’s Wild Life returned with Willa saying “Um… well, not a good explanation.” For Boo Bear Cable subscribers, after 10 seconds of the clip, BBC technicians quickly noticed that a video pirate hijacked the channel and put up a technical fault card that said: "No need to call us. We are aware of this issue and service will be restored as soon as possible. Please check this channel frequently for status. SORRY FOR THE INTERRUPTION.", with the same message repeated in French below. Just 5 seconds after the first incident was over, Boo Bear Cable returned the service for Kidimax.

The JH
The next evening, the signal of The JH was interrupted during an airing of a Lillian Plays episode. The Pincher showed the same As The World Turns clip that featured Betsy.

Aftermath and Cultural Impact
The following day, the Pincher destroyed Jacob again, and got killed off by Hand in the final part of TRH 54. Max Barkington was with the police investigating the incident, Lillian revealed in a short clip on what happened, and got proof that the Pincher was behind the incident all along. Furthermore, all stations (including The JH and Kidimax) went back to normal.

Later that evening, the two incidents were talked about through PageMax, BBNnews, Telelogue and JH News for the next few days.

On the night of April 1st, 2021, The JH humorously inserted a clip of the Betsy Stewart incident almost immediately before Telelogue started, just in time for April Fools.

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