Max Headroom Hijacks Chicago's Airwaves
(via BoingBoing) In 1987 a "sophisticated video pirate with an unsophisticated sense of humor" managed to override the signals of Chicago's WTTW-TW Channel 11 broadcast of the British science fiction series "Dr. Who" and, two hours earlier, made an unauthorized 28-second appearance in the middle of a newscast on WGN-TV Channel 9. Both times, the video pirate wore a Max Headroom mask.
Max Headroom was one of my all-time favorite TV shows, if only for coining the word "blipvert" and demonstrating the immolative power of subliminal advertising. The full story on the hacker is here, the YouTube video is below.
