WGN engineers were able to quickly thwart the attack by changing the studio-to-transmitter frequency that was used to transmit the broadcast signal from WGN’s studio at 2501 W.
There was no audio present in the unexpected interruption – other than an odd buzzing noise in the background – when the Chicago Bulls highlights were temporarily replaced with a Max Headroom figure (an iconic 1987-era computer generated character) standing before a bizarre, twisting background meant to mimic the animated “noise lines” in the popular Max Headroom shorts. Two hours prior to the WTTW signal intrusion, Chicago’s WGN-TV (channel 9) newscast was interrupted by the same intruder at 9:00 PM during the sports report segment of the nightly Nine O’Clock News.
Max headroom voice tv#
The WGN-TV broadcast intrusionĪlthough the WTTW-11 incident garnered the most media attention, it was actually the second TV hijacking event that night. All that remains is an inexplicable video recording of the event and an intriguing mystery that has left Windy City residents puzzled for more than two decades. To date, how the perpetrators hijacked the television station’s broadcast is unknown and the culprit(s) have never been found or identified. Even more baffling, the perpetrators, who would have had to not only possess expert knowledge of broadcast technology but also have access to sophisticated and expensive television broadcast equipment, appeared to be youngsters.
Who, when a still-as-yet unidentified hacker took over the station’s broadcast replacing a brief section of the evening’s program with a creepy montage of a masked Max Headroom figure spouting bizarre, and often unintelligible, statements at the camera. Before the advent of the Internet and widespread public knowledge of a coordinated “hacking” culture, a strange and eerie incident occurred during a Novembroadcast on WTTW-11 Chicago (a PBS affiliate) of Dr.
0 kommentar(er)
