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#Max headroom broadcast signal intrusion videos series#
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The intruders would have required commercial grade equipment as well as a sophisticated knowledge of microwave and broadcasting technology. (The girl pretends to spank the top of his rear end with the flyswatter while he moans and screams.)

#Max headroom broadcast signal intrusion videos series#

Approximately two hours later, PBS member station WTTW (channel 11) was broadcasting the Doctor Who series Horror of Fang Rock when another inexplicable broadcast interruption occurred this time with audio attached. A girl whose face cannot be seen, stands behind him holding a wire flyswatter.) The creepy WTTW broadcast intrusion event the second Max Headroom incident. 22 that year, and you can watch a subtitled video of big-headed Max’s shenanigans below. Instead of wearing the Max Headroom mask, he is now holding it at his side facing the camera, with a marital aid protruding from the mask's mouth. The Max Headroom Signal Intrusion happened on Nov. (The scene then cuts away to 'Max' leaning to his right with his pants pulled down, exposing his left buttock. 'Looks like it's got blood prints on it!' He picks up an old, dirty, over-sized glove.) 'Oh, I just laid a giant masterpiece for all the Greatest World Newspaper nerds.' (More mimicking of the 'Clutch Cargo' theme song.) More distorted laughs by 'Max.' He then mimics the opening theme song to the 'Clutch Cargo' cartoon show.) Picks up a marital aid, brings it toward the camera, and drops it.

'Yeah, I think I'm better than Chuck Swirsky.' Here's the video and transcription of the WTTW event: The WGN-TV hijacking occured during The Nine O'clock News, though this was quickly resolved by the station's engineers. Both WGN-TV and WTTW stations had their signals interrupted by a man wearing a Max Headroom rubber mask, talking infront of a piece of swaying corrugated metal and eventually being spanked by a flyswatter. Ī criminal investigation conducted by the Federal Communications Commission in the immediate aftermath of the intrusion could not find the people responsible, and despite many unofficial inquiries and much speculation over the ensuing decades, the culprits have yet to be positively identified.The Max Headroom incidents occured on the evening of November 22, 1987. The broadcast pirate and his accomplices have never been found, nor have the police ever named any suspects or witnesses. At that point, the hijackers ended the pirate transmission, and normal programming resumed after a total interruption of about 90 seconds. The Max Headroom broadcast intrusions were a series of break-ins to two television stations in Chicago by a man imitating and wearing a mask of the character Max Headroom, as well as mocking political figures and the networks he hijacked on November 22, 1987. The video concluded with the masked figure’s bare buttocks being spanked by a woman with a flyswatter while yelling 'They're coming to get me!', with the woman responding 'Bend over, bitch!' as the figure was crying and screaming.

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With nobody on duty at the affected tower, this signal takeover was more sustained, and the masked figure could be heard making reference to the real Max Headroom's advertisements for New Coke, the animated TV series Clutch Cargo, WGN sportscaster Chuck Swirsky, 'Greatest World Newspaper nerds', and other seemingly unrelated topics.

#Max headroom broadcast signal intrusion videos serial#

The second incident occurred about two hours later during PBS member station WTTW's broadcast of the Doctor Who serial Horror of Fang Rock. This interruption went on for almost 17 seconds before engineers at WGN were able to regain control of their broadcast tower. Unlike the later intrusion, the only sound was a loud buzz. Like the later signal intrusion, it featured a person wearing a mask swaying erratically in front of a swiveling corrugated metal panel, apparently meant to resemble Max Headroom's animated geometric background. The first incident took place during the sports segment of independent TV station WGN-TV's 9:00 p.m. The unidentified hijacker dressed to resemble Max Headroom in the pirate broadcast