minimum bedroom

Max Headroom signal hijackings

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki
·
Traduire cette page
On November 22, 1987, two television stations based in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked two hours apart from one another by unidentified perpetrators.
Signal hijackings
Methods
Investigations
Cultural impact
Aperçu généré par IA



+5
On November 22, 1987, two television stations in Chicago, Illinois—WGN-TV and WTTW—were hijacked within three hours of each other by an unknown person wearing a Max Headroom mask. The bizarre pirate broadcasts featured distorted audio, rambling statements, and a final spanking scene, remaining an unsolved mystery.

Wikipedia
 +3
The First Hijacking (WGN-TV)
Occurred at about 9:15 p.m. during the sports segment of WGN's evening news.
Lasted for roughly 25 seconds.
Featured the masked figure swaying in front of a spinning corrugated metal panel.
Broadcast only a loud buzzing sound instead of a clear voice.

Reddit
·The Strangest
 +2
The Second Hijacking (WTTW)
Occurred around 11:15 p.m. during a PBS broadcast of Doctor Who.
Lasted for about 90 seconds before engineers cut the transmission.
Featured garbled speech, humming, singing, chanting TV show slogans, and a reference to a blood-stained glove.
Ended with an unidentified woman using a flyswatter to spank the figure's bare buttocks.

Reddit
·The Strangest
 +1
Investigation and Legacy
The Culprits: Despite inquiries by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the FBI, the identity of the person or people involved was never discovered.