I remember when a HS fan punked a newsie live on the air on the night Princess Diana died. Passed himself off very professionally, right up to the point that he said they were speeding trough the tunnel “to get to a video store before they closed so they could get a copy of Howard Stern’s ‘Private Parts’”.
I do not remember the network it happened on.
Remember that Howard Stern himself was fired from his job at a radio station after an on-air episode in the aftermath of the Air Florida plane crash in the Potomac River back in 1982. He called up an Air Florida reservation line and asked if he could purchase a one-way ticket from National Airport to the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. (the plane had crashed into the bridge before landing in the river).
Public-access TV host bombarded with prank calls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIEHI0vfCBk