Cinema For Stoners

The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion (1987)

During a broadcast of the Dr. Who episode “Horror of Fang Rock” on WTTW Chicago Channel 11, on Sunday November 22nd, 1987, at around 11:15pm, a video hacker wearing a Max Headroom mask hijacked the signal and transmitted one of the weirdest, unauthorized things ever to hit the Chicago airwaves.

Earlier in the evening on the same day, during the Nine O'Clock News on Channel 9 the Max Headroom hacker also broke in - although it was for a much shorter time and there was no audio.

The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion (1987)

During a broadcast of the Dr. Who episode “Horror of Fang Rock” on WTTW Chicago Channel 11, on Sunday November 22nd, 1987, at around 11:15pm, a video hacker wearing a Max Headroom mask hijacked the signal and transmitted one of the weirdest, unauthorized things ever to hit the Chicago airwaves.

Earlier in the evening on the same day, during the Nine O'Clock News on Channel 9 the Max Headroom hacker also broke in - although it was for a much shorter time and there was no audio.