Max Headroom WGN9 Pirating Incident - 11/22/87

"Replica" of the WGN hijacking stitched together using footage from the news story that aired the day following the hijacking.

Max's WGN hijack lasted in reality about 20 seconds. The newscast that this footage was ripped from only had 13 seconds worth of footage. This was put together simply to show what the WGN hijacking was like.

Unfortunately I doubt anyone recorded the newscast from that night so this will have to do for now.

The audio did not work in Max's WGN hijack, instead there was this buzzing noise.

Later in the evening, "Max" would successfully override the signal of PBS-affiliate WTTW-11 in one of the most famous broadcast signal intrusion incidents in history.

NOTE: The original footage of this recording was provided by the news broadcast that aired the next day. I have stitched this together as a courtesy, please do not copy this video just to repost it on your channel for numbers. Having two of the same video is totally pointless.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• max
• headroom
• pirating
• incident
• tv
• hack
• hijacking
• crime
• chicago
• television
• captain
• midnight
• wyoming

[Thecloudyday1]

It's OK, it's just a video...

It's OK, it's just a video...

It's OK, it's just a video...

It's OK, it's just a video...

[TheKingOfRuckus]

Whoever this guy is, he did something AWESOME. He should reveal himself, or do it again. I wish I had seen this live.

[MegaCrazycatt]

@TheKingOfRuckus I wish he would too. I'm sure the statue of limitations is up and the law couldn't do anything to him anymore. In a way I wish I also could have seen it live, even though I'm sure it would have scared the heck out of me lol

[JuggalocodeChile1988]

Max Headroom mask = Troll face of the 80's!

[starkiller20293]

@jonrev They still never caught him to this day?

[jonrev]

@starkiller20293 It did. The incidents occurred within a couple hours of each other.

[starkiller20293]

@jonrev I thought it occured on the same night?

[jonrev]

@starkiller20293 Same guy, different times.

[starkiller20293]

@jonrev So two Maxc Headroom guys did this? How can it be seperate when it's clearly THE SAME GUY!?

[leafygreentree]

I was a kid when this happened.

[SilverMcdowell1992]

The way he turns his neck around 0:16 is just... disturbing...