The video ended with the person’s exposed buttocks being spanked by a woman with a flyswatter before normal programming resumed.ĭespite an FCC investigation and decades of speculation, the culprits were never caught and have not been positively identified. The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (was the first to upload this bit of freaky Chicago TV histo.
#Max headroom wttw pirating incident series#
The masked person spoke throughout this intrusion and made references to Max Headroom’s endorsement of Coca-Cola, the TV series Clutch Cargo, WGN anchor Chuck Swirsky and “all the greatest world newspaper nerds”, a reference to WGN’s call letters, which stand for “ World’s Greatest Newspaper“. The second incident occurred around two hours later during PBS member station WTTW‘s broadcast of Doctor Who and lasted for about 90 seconds. During this intrusion, the person in the mask swayed erratically and was accompanied by a strange buzzing noise. The first incident took place during the sports segment of independent TV station WGN-TV‘s 9:00 p.m.
Not really related to libertarianism just interesting. Featuring Kris Long, Bob Strutzel - WGN Chief. The culprits were never caught or identified.The Max Headroom signal hijacking occurred on the night of November 22, 1987, when the television broadcasts of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, United States, were hijacked in an act of broadcast piracy by a video of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume, accompanied by distorted audio and a corrugated metal panel swiveling in the background to mimic Max Headroom’s geometric background effect. On this date 34 years ago, Doctor Who was interrupted in Chicago by the Max Headroom incident. Description: Heres a news segment on WFLD Channel 32 regarding the infamous Max Headroom Pirating Incident. The video ended with a pair of exposed buttocks being spanked with a flyswatter before normal programming resumed. Well, if you’re wondering what’s happened, ha-ha…so am IĪ corrugated panel swiveled back and forth mimicking Max Headroom's geometric background effect. “They’re coming to get me!” the man screamed suddenly. The pirate broadcasts involved a man wearing a mask of 80s pop-culture. The man was then spanked repeatedly with a flyswatter as he screamed. The Max Headroom Television Hijackings was a 1987 incident in which a group of at. “Bend over, bitch,” a female voice responded. The rubber extension that had covered the figure’s finger was stuffed inside the mouth of the mask. The Max Headroom mask had been removed and was being held up to the camera. The camera then cut to a shot of a man’s torso and partially exposed buttocks. "But it's dirty! It's like you got bloodstains on it!" “My brother is wearing the other one.” “My brother is wearing the other one.” This person then begins to hold up a gardening glove in reference to pop star Michael Jackson and proclaims: this seems to be a direct nod to WGN, whose sister newspaper - the Chicago Tribune - went by the nickname " World's Greatest Newspaper" a reference to WGN's call letters ….
"Oh, I just made a great masterpiece for the greatest world newspaper nerds!" He screamed nonsense, and then he began to moan. He muttered phrases from television shows. Illegal broadcast showing Max Headroom Impostor doing non-sense things and obscenities, shown over sports news and 'Doctor Who' episode, which became cult phenomena as culprits were never captured. He sang “your love is fading,” lyrics to (I Know) I’m Losing You by the Temptations. Max Headroom Pirating Incident: With Anonymous. The end of analog television broadcasting in the US and the conversion to digital signalsas well as the increased use of. The figure flipped off the camera, his middle finger covered in a rubber extension. The Max Headroom 'broadcast intrusion' on WTTW, on November 22, 1987. WTTW’s uplink antenna was atop the 1,454 foot Sears tower in downtown Chicago, and investigators concluded that the signal pirate smothered the legitimate broadcast by sending a more powerful signal to. "Your love is fading!" he shouts, before throwing the phallus to the floor. The story of the Max Headroom pirating incident, one of the few successful television intrusions in history, and still unsolved. Then, "I think I'm better than Chuck Swirsky, frickin Liberal!" referring to the Chicago Bulls announcer who was then WGN Radio's go-to sportscaster. "He's a frickin nerd," Max says, in a voice that sounds like a cartoon villain.
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