Max Headroom Intrusion News Reports

The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion incident was a television signal hijacking in Chicago, Illinois, on the evening of November 22, 1987; it is an example of what is known in the television business as broadcast signal intrusion. The intruder was successful in interrupting two television stations within three hours. Neither the hijacker nor his accomplices have ever been found or identified.

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[CrashCoolicoot]

"At a significant power level."

Was it over 9000?

[dasrael]

you can smell the bullshit the news and feds are saying.. 'LEAVES AN ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE!' haha well, since it's 2010 and they still haven't caught the guy I think it's safe to assume it didn't leave jack.

[dieselboy87]

lol @ "perverse" its a girl hitting a guys ass with a flyswatter. shes not exactly taking a dump on his chest. fucking retard journalists.

[aPyroKirby]

Back when trolling was truly difficult.

[A86]

@dasrael - The first transmission in which it appeared the intruders failed to get the audio signal through (along with the "Max Headroom" guy's somewhat baffled-looking reaction) made it seem like the intrusion was live rather than pre-recorded. But what you're saying is plausible I guess. I say "I guess" because it sounds like you know more about Audio-Video than I do, some I'm kind of just taking your word for it on how the intrusion is done. Lol

[dasrael]

@A86 any sufficiently competent radio "guy" would be able to figure out the STL frequency and modulation and easily override it with a few watts and a well placed Yagi antenna. It would be very easy to pre-record the piece well before-hand and simply drive somewhere near the head-end and blast the signal into the STL from a few blocks away. The most expensive portion of this would be getting ahold of a small STL transmitter/modulator, but it's not that hard. I'm surprised this isn't done more.

[A86]

@dasrael - I assume the guys who did it were probably either communication specialists/engineers of some sort or were possibly even employees of the same damn station they intruded. The latter theory would certainly explain why they were never caught. They would know how to hide their tracks better being familiar with the building and the layout of the equipment.

[MegaCrazycatt]

@dasrael Lol I remember thinking the same thing. If he really DID leave an "electronic signature" they would have found him almost immediately.

[NaziZombieKiller1991]

I wonder if the guys who did that are still watching this on YouTube saying "ahh that was funny, I can't believe they never caught us."

[LeagueOfDirectors]

$10 says that Jamiebtz is the hacker.

[godofdarknes]

imagine the irony if he interrupted this

[spiff2268]

Whoever did this should come forward because I'm sure the statute of limitations has long expired.