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On the night of November 22, 1987, the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers.
Feb 16, 2012 · On November 22nd, 1987, A TV pirate hacked into WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago, Illinois, to interrupt the broadcast of Dr. Who.
May 25, 2021 · At 9:14, Dan Roan disappeared from the screen. In fact, everything disappeared from the screen as it flickered into darkness. Then, 15 seconds later, a new figure appeared. Dressed in a rubber mask and wearing sunglasses, the mysterious intruder looked like artificial intelligence television character Max Headroom.
One such incident happened in November 1987, when Chicago stations WGN and WTTW had their transmissions briefly interrupted by a man in a Max Headroom mask. The jamming did not appear to affect HBO's pricing policies in the long-term.
Jul 7, 2015 · At 9:14PM on November 22, 1987, the regularly scheduled programming at WGN Chicago, a local news station in Illinois, was interrupted. The screen hissed and burped, materializing into a...
Nov 25, 2013 · In some corners of the Internet, the story of how Max Headroom infiltrated two Chicago TV stations, just a few weeks after the show was canceled, has reached almost mythic proportions.
Max Headroom incidents. Screenshot of the Max Headroom hijacker. On the night of November 22, 1987, an unidentified man wearing a Max Headroom mask appeared on the signals of two television stations in Chicago, Illinois. WGN-TV, owned by Tribune Broadcasting, was hijacked first.
Nov 21, 2017 · It was Nov. 22, 1987—a Sunday night—and “Doctor Who” fans had just settled in to watch a rerun of the episode “Horror at Fang Rock.” Suddenly, the Doctor was replaced by Max Headroom—not the 1980s comedy character Max Headroom, but a guy in a mask ranting through garbled audio.
Nov 22, 2017 · Thirty years ago today, a person or persons unknown briefly hijacked the signal of two Chicago television stations, broadcasting a bizarre taped message from a man wearing a Max Headroom mask.
Dec 17, 2018 · The Max Headroom incident. On Sunday, Nov. 22, 1987, viewers watching “Doctor Who” on WTTW-TV experienced one of the oddest things ever to cross Chicago televisions: a 90-second hijacking of ...
