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In 1987, a TV signal hijacking took place which was to become the most infamous of its kind. It would spark a decades-long hunt for the perpetrator, and its legacy echoes through popular culture to this day.
At 9:14 PM on November 22, 1987, viewers of the Chicago station, WGN-TV were watching their daily newscast, when programming was interrupted by 15 seconds of darkness, followed by the image of a masked figure.
The figure wore sunglasses over a rubber mask resembling the fictional computer-generated TV presenter Max Headroom. No discernible audio accompanied this pirate broadcast, but static hissed menacingly.
As the station’s engineers tried frantically to regain control, the figure swayed and bobbed manically as, behind him, corrugated iron sheets spun back and forth in a disorientating manner...
In 1987, a TV signal hijacking took place which was to become the most infamous of its kind. It would spark a decades-long hunt for the perpetrator, and its legacy echoes through popular culture to this day.
At 9:14 PM on November 22, 1987, viewers of the Chicago station, WGN-TV were watching their daily newscast, when programming was interrupted by 15 seconds of darkness, followed by the image of a masked figure.
The figure wore sunglasses over a rubber mask resembling the fictional computer-generated TV presenter Max Headroom. No discernible audio accompanied this pirate broadcast, but static hissed menacingly.
As the station’s engineers tried frantically to regain control, the figure swayed and bobbed manically as, behind him, corrugated iron sheets spun back and forth in a disorientating manner...