Скачать или смотреть The Max Headroom Hijack: The Unsolved Live TV Intrusion (1987)

In 1987, someone hijacked live television in Chicago — twice.

The Max Headroom Broadcast Intrusion remains one of the most infamous (and still unsolved) signal hijackings in American TV history. During a WGN-TV broadcast and later during Doctor Who on WTTW, a masked figure took over the airwaves, delivered bizarre surreal audio, and vanished without a trace.

In this 404 Archive deep dive, we break down:

What happened on November 22, 1987

The WGN-TV interruption vs the longer WTTW hijack

How broadcast signal intrusions worked in the 1980s

Why the FCC investigation led nowhere

Theories on who did it — and why it still hasn’t been solved

If you enjoy internet mysteries, analog horror, lost media, and broadcast anomalies, you’re in the right place.

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