SEBTAW

SEBTAW (Sound Echography Braincasting Transmissing Air Wave Signal), is fictional element of Candle Cove, a horror-themed urban legend spread through the Internet. In the fictional world of Candle Cove, it was a experimental signal created in late 1970 and later acknowledged in May 2007 by NASA. The show's producers are depicted as having possibly been coerced to collaborate.
Experimental broadcasting
The broadcasting system involved a technology known as "SEBTAW" (Sound Echography Braincasting Transmissing Air Wave Signal). It worked with the long-peak radio/air wave conversion to brainwave signals, in order to stimulate brain cells directly with the air waves without needing a visual/auditory output.
This system was created on the television's "static" that was, by other means, a peak projection whose radio signals permitted the watchers to acquire the visual information. The "static" was, in reality, a weak signal that televisions closer to the broadcasting studio could pick up. Meanwhile, other televisions further away relied on children's tolerance for low video and audio quality to watch their TV show. An adult may remember this as static, since at the time they saw it as close to pure static.
According to sources, the determined signal length allowed the system to only work in children between two and six years old. Their brains have not passed the final myelination stages, unlike teenagers or adults, and thus were susceptible to the braincasting process. This is the main reason NASA chose to mask the testing program with a children's television show.
However, this is not to say that the show was not at all visible to those close to the signal; it was just stronger with younger children. There have been reports of children, who were at least ten at the time that lived close to the television studio who watched the show. There was even one instance of someone's mother watching the show with their child (the mother was 18, while the child was 3). The woman could not understand why her son was so engrossed in it, when she found it to be just another silly children's show. She was surprised at her son's ability to clearly discern images from the weak signal. However, the signal needed to be at least faintly received by the television in order to be imprinted. A weak signal looks like static, with faint swirls representing pictures.
The SEBTAW system had a bug which caused the test subjects (the children) to retain the information about the show acquired via SEBTAW to last only six hours or less, and attempting to remember the episode caused head aces. This explains why most of the information about the show is lost. Also Some believe the system had trouble transmitting some colors, which appeared differently to different people.
SEBTAW aired episodes
According to the official network book, only six episodes of the final season (the last one planned before the show's cancellation) were broadcasted exclusively by the SEBTAW system. These were episodes 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 12.
In some areas, it was not only those episodes, but the full series that was transmitted via SEBTAW. As well, there sometimes was regular advertising and announcement of the show in the regular episode, and even the title cards of some SEBTAW-exclusive episodes, like the Death of Milo, played before the SEBTAW braincasting. This is why Candle Cove is remembered by children and parents as an "urban legend", since most could see nothing more than thirty minutes of static, unless they were close enough to fully receive the television station's weak signal, and the content of the show was quickly wiped from the kids' memories.
Aftermath
SEBTAW technology has been systematically denied by the US government, but was reportedly used in the 80's to transfer information and confidential, top secret messages by air without the risk of having them decrypted. It is not known currently if the system was being discarded by the coming of the 90's and the digital adoption by part of the US government, or if it is still in use.
Some scientific publications also treated the topic by describing the danger of the brainwave transmission, making the specific indication about how it was "Demonstrated to create addiction and aggressive behavior on little children in the 1972 NASA experiment."

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