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Bubblegum Crisis is the topic of this week's Anime of the Week thread in r/anime. Which made me want to post pics of my collection of BGC-related video discs. AnimEigo's set of BGC LDs were actually my first laserdiscs. I preordered them even before I had a player.

The Best of Bubblegum Crisis Music 1 CDV I posted before.

I also posted before the Bye-Bye Knight Sabers: Holiday in Bali LD. It's a music video with the seiyuu (voice actresses) singing BGC songs at various spots around the island.

From https://ocalamagazine.com/captain-midnight-and-the-jamming-of-hbo/

>He called himself “Captain Midnight” and for over four minutes he rocked the world of satellite television.

>The date was April 27, 1986. The time: 12:32 a.m. If you happened to be watching the Home Box Office Network’s broadcast of “The Falcon and the Snowman” then, you saw the message sent out by Captain Midnight. Right after the movie concluded its opening credits, a 25-year-old Ocalan working for a local teleport uplink operator jammed HBO’s transmission with a standard color test pattern that included the following statement:

>GOODEVENING HBO
FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT
$12.95/MONTH?
NO WAY!
(SHOWTIME/MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE!)

>Captain Midnight was actually John MacDougall, who in those days operated a satellite television dealership when it was all the rage for homeowners to place a huge dish in their yard in order to capture direct satellite feeds of premium cable programming. When HBO began scrambling its signal and charging what were then exorbitant fees, the dish craze began to wane and dealers of the product took a major financial hit.

>With business sour, MacDougall went to work as a part-time operations engineer for Central Florida Teleport, which uplinked services to satellites. It was after one of his shifts on a Saturday evening that he decided it was time to send his message to HBO and all viewing. By simply aiming his dish at the satellite Galaxy I, Transponder 23, and applying more power than the 125 watts HBO was using to transmit its signal, Captain Midnight took control. In essence, Captain Midnight achieved the world’s first hijacking of a satellite.

Also another article that includes a link to a video of the jamming in progress.