WTTW Channel 11 - The Max Headroom Pirating Incident (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 "Pirate" wearing a Max Headroom mask broke into 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 (Yes, a completely different channel) the Max Headroom Pirate also broke in - although it was for a much shorter time and there was no audio.

Needless to say, Dan Rohn (the sports reporter) was a bit flustered.

And no, he was never caught.
http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/screen.php?c=59&m=max%20headroom%20pirate&...

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• video
• piracy
• hacker
• max
• headroom
• wttw
• wgn
• pranks

[icthar]

Christ! There was probably some poor dude off his face on drugs when this came on. Imagine his shock!

[totalrandomcrap]

I wonder how much the master tape would be worth if it ever surfaced!

[1ascendhigher1]

father of anonymous

[ViewWatchGori19]

"I just made the greatest masterpiece for all the world's newspaper nerds!"

[statelessmars]

@TheNeoMalthusian lol its also on youtube, infact it even shows the guys reaction after the interuption

[mystorydude]

Sounds like a cyberman

[texasrangertwb]

trolling in the 80's was... scary

[brutalisk1994]

WAT

[l33tatwhistling]

that is awesome XD



[ReTrOzCrAzY]

I dont remember taking that much drugs

[TheMilitantWalrus]

I wanna PARTY with this guy!