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The Max Headroom broadcast intrusionswere a series of break-ins to two television stations in Chicago by a man imitating and wearing a mask of the character Max Headroom, as well as mocking political figures and the networks he hijacked on November 22, 1987. The broadcast pirate and his accomplices have never been found, nor have the police ever na...
The first and lesser-known occurrence happened during the WGN Nine O'Clock news, in which anchor Dan Roan was recapping the highlights of the recent Chicago Bears game, which was the hijackers primary and, at the time (debatably) sole target. The intrusion lasted (approximately) 25 seconds and there was no audio but a low buzzing sound. It only las...
Two hours later (at roughly 11:15 PM), on PBS member station WTTW, a re-run of the British series Doctor Who's Horror of Fang Rock serial was hijacked with a similar Max Headroom video, only this time the audio was working, and the engineers had no way of getting rid of it. What followed was 90 seconds of the Max Headroom impersonator making fun of...
The next day, the incident received widespread national headlines, and was reported on the CBS Evening News, among other affiliates. WTTW received many calls from people wondering exactly what was occurring as early as the last few seconds of the hijacking. The incident was parodied by WMAQ-TV. The station inserted clips of the hijacking (without s...
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Max Headroom. Max Headroom is more than just a signal intrusion, I believe it has something to do with the 1977 Wow Signal, The Ashtar Galactic Message, and its reason is to hijack signals and frequencies and to figure out where other frequencies may have been coming from. This intrusion was created to find out who and what are using television ...
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