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Lucky 7 (pirate TV Station)
Lucky 7 was a pirate television station, believed to be one of the first ever to operate in the United States, that aired for three nights in the spring of 1978 in Syracuse, New York. Operation Lucky 7 (operated by the "Renegade Broadcasting Company") aired for a total of 25 hours during the evenings of April 14–16, 1978 (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) on VHF channel 7, an otherwise-unoccupied frequency in the Syracuse area. Programs aired by Lucky 7 included episodes of such TV series as ''Star Trek'' and ''The Twilight Zone'', as well as several films unavailable on broadcast television at the time. These included films such as ''Rocky'' (1976) and ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (1975), plus pornographic fare such as ''Deep Throat (film), Deep Throat'' and ''Behind the Green Door'' (both 1972). According to reports by the Associated Press and ''The New York Times'', a man with a gas mask and a noose around his neck was seen onscreen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse ( ) is a City (New York), city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, Onondaga County, New York, United States. It is the fifth-most populous city in the state of New York following New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, Yonkers, New York, Yonkers, and Rochester, New York, Rochester. At the United States Census 2020, 2020 census, the city's population was 148,620 and its Syracuse metropolitan area, metropolitan area had a population of 662,057. It is the economic and educational hub of Central New York, a region with over one million inhabitants. Syracuse is also well-provided with convention sites, with a Oncenter, downtown convention complex. Syracuse was named after the classical Greek city Syracuse, Sicily, Syracuse (''Siracusa'' in Italian), a city on the eastern coast of the Italian island of Sicily. Historically, the city has functioned as a major Crossroads (culture), crossroads over the last two centuries, first between the Erie Canal and its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
