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General Category => Huh? => Topic started by: corq on November 22, 2025, 2133 UTC
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking)
The Max Headroom signal hijacking (also known as the Max Headroom incident) was a hijacking of the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, on November 22, 1987, that briefly sent a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers.[1][2][3][4]
The first incident took place during the sports segment of independent TV station WGN-TV's 9:00 p.m. newscast and featured a person wearing a mask swaying erratically in front of a semi-swiveling corrugated metal panel, apparently meant to resemble Max Headroom's animated geometric background. Unlike the later intrusion, the only sound was a loud buzz. In total, the interruption went on for almost 30 seconds before engineers at WGN were able to regain control of their broadcast tower.
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A great moment in Chicagoland broadcasting history! ;D
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Oh yeah... Someone got away with STL take-overs back then. BTW, for those who have never heard of, or seen, Max Headroom, when it aired on ABC in late 1987, you can watch that here. https://tubitv.com/series/300017810/max-headroom