spanish invasion??

September 28, 2007 3:35 PM

What is going on with Chicago area broadcast TV? The language has switched to Spanish.

WGN and FOx are broadcasting the normal shows, i.e. Simpsons etc... but they are in spanish not english. the commercials just go silent, except curiously enough the car-rx commercials. ABC was in spanish last night, but then it just went silent rather than keep talking that infernal language apparently. Or something.

Does anyone know what's going on? Are we being invaded?

posted by sorindome to society & culture (8 comments total)

Sounds like you've accidentally set your TV on SAP (second audio program). Is that it?
posted by JimN2TAW at 3:39 PM on September 28, 2007 [2 favorites]

That is totally what happened. JimN2 called it. I did this a few years back (in Chicago!), but i had lost my television manual, and I had to call Sony and make them walk me through switching it back to English step by step.


On the plus side, the Simpsons are even funnier in Spanish.
posted by Lieber Frau at 3:41 PM on September 28, 2007

The Simpsons are way funnier in Spanish and I don't speak a word!
posted by wildeepdotorg at 3:56 PM on September 28, 2007

OK they are way funnier, but you all were right. It was just the SAP nonsense. I don't know why it was only for a few channels, or why the results were so varied from channel to channel. But it's over now.
posted by sorindome at 4:01 PM on September 28, 2007

Probably the reason it was only for a few channels is that the others don't broadcast Spanish audio.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 4:09 PM on September 28, 2007

Everytime I turn my TV to Jay Leno, I get Spanish subtitles. I think it's a bug in my tv that turns on CC2 when it's broadcasting.
posted by ALongDecember at 5:28 PM on September 28, 2007

This has the makings of a novel. Citizen wakes up, all the media is suddenly Spanish, panic ensues. Of course here in Texas that happens all the time, though the process is slower.
posted by hodyoaten at 6:10 PM on September 28, 2007

HodyOaten beat me to it. Here in Dallas, Univision is a part of the skyline, UHF es muy con espanol aqui, y los stationes del radio en Tejas hoy es muy--

*Me golpeé en cara*

--woah I think I just SAP'd myself.
posted by ZachsMind at 6:43 PM on September 28, 2007