Check out our online shop.Įpisode transcripts are posted on our website. Neither the hijacker nor the accomplices have ever been found or. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery.Īrtwork by Julienne Alexander. The intruder was successful in interrupting two television stations within three hours. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: /CriminalShow. Here, shown publicly in its entirety for the first time in 30 years, is the complete broadcast of the initial 'Max Headroom Incident' that plagued the spor. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. As one television viewer said, it felt like someone threw “a brick through your window.” A little boy said it was “very, very funny.” We speak with Dan Roan, Larry Ocker, Al Skierkiewicz, Jim Higgins, and Matt Frewer. And then, two hours later it happened again on a different channel-WTTW-during a broadcast of Dr.
He supposedly came from our “not so distant future”-a future where the world is run by TV executives. The interruption lasted about 30 seconds. The mask was the face of a fictional character from 1985 named Max Headroom, who was supposed to be the world’s first computer generated TV host. Then a person appeared, dancing back and forth in front of a moving striped background, and wearing a mask. The intruder was successful in interrupting two broadcast television stations within the. It is an example of what is known in the television business as broadcast signal intrusion.
Sportscaster Dan Roan had been talking about the Chicago Bears, when the screen suddenly went black. The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion was a television signal hijacking that occurred in Chicago, Illinois, United States on the evening of November 22, 1987.
The entire intrusion lasted for about 28 seconds and was cut off. The full sequence started in the night of 27th November 1987, when the US television station WGN Channel 9 in Chicago, IL was infamously hijacked by a man. One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the WGN nine o’clock news in Chicago. The first intrusion took place during the sports segment of WGN-TVs The Nine OClock News.
Episode 153: The Max Headroom Incident Criminal