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1987 Hijacking Of A Chicago TV Signal

published on January 29th, 2007 . by joe

This is cool.  On Sunday, November 22nd, 1987, a video pirate wearing a Max Headroom mask managed to break into two television broadcasts.  He first broke into the Nine O’Clock news on channel 9 for around 30 seconds and then around 11:15pm, he broke into a channel 11 broadcast of Dr. Who.

The Actual Broadcast [Mirror]

The Media Response

TNS Story Link

[ Via Boing Boing ]

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