Max Headroom signal hijacking
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title:
Max Headroom signal hijacking
text:
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. The first incident took place during the sports segment of independent TV station WGN-TV's 9:00 p.m. newscast. Like the later signal intrusion, it featured a person wearing a mask swaying erratically in front of a swiveling corrugated metal panel, apparently
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1987 Chicago television hijacking incident
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking
date created:
2006-11-25T07:15:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T18:16:52Z
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