Cold War SI: Soviets invade US Television

I was just watching an old SCTV ep where the soviets jam the SCTV programming with their own propaganda programming. Though it was done for laughs, could this be done in real life (during the cold war of course), and what would be the result?
 
I belive someone have hacked some TV transmision somewhere so the Soviets could probobly hack say Montanas cable TV in the 80's, the US have a special ops plane capable of taking over TV stations. But I dubt they could do it for long and for a large area.
 
Not sure about TV, but radio shenannagins have been done, and not just the Soviets. I was once fiddling with my AM radio (I'm in Central CA) and picked up a nice AM station from Boise that played 70s and 80s rock one night. Right in the middle of "Walk Like an Egyptian" came a very powerful signal, clear as a bell, and the speaker ID'd the station as Radio Havana! And they were "spreading the truth about Cuba to the American people". I called the FCC the next day and they told me that it did happen from time to time, and not much could be done about it. This was back in the summer of '92 IIRC.
 
The US mercilessly and without compassion immediately cedes US television to the Soviets. The fallout alone ruins half the Soviet territory and...
 
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