Max Headroom Hijacking Incident

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09/13/22 • 3 min

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The Max Headroom signal hijacking occurred on the night of November 22, 1987, when the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois were hijacked, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

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