Lucky 7 (operated by the "Renegade Broadcasting Company") aired for a total of 25 hours during the evenings of April 14–16, 1978 on VHF channel 7, an otherwise-unoccupied frequency in the Syracuse area.
[1][2] Programs aired by Lucky 7 included episodes of such TV series as Star Trek and The Twilight Zone,[3] as well as several films unavailable on broadcast television at the time.
These included films such as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Rocky (1976), and Annie Hall (1977), plus pornographic fare such as Deep Throat (1972) and The Devil in Miss Jones (1973).
[1][4] 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 occasionally,[1][3] editorializing and claiming that half the TVs in the Syracuse area were able to see the broadcasts.
[5] A contemporary article in The Daily Orange, the Syracuse University student newspaper, reported that Lucky 7 accomplished the broadcasts by "attaching an RF modulator to a videotape recorder and intensifying the [...] signal with an old guitar amplifier."