Phil Bradford, a spokesperson from FCC mentioned that anyone involved in the incident will face a penalty of $100,000, and one year in jail, or both. Some found the hack to be funny but at least that’s not what the government accepted.Ī reward to anyone who finds information on the mysterious masked figure was offered by the FCC, the agency that regulates the airwaves. While most of the viewers were confused, some were also upset that their show had been interrupted. The copies of the whole hacking incidents were caught by Doctor Who fans who were taping the episodes on their VCRs. The original Max Headroom, a fictional character from a dystopian future.
If someone had been there, the signal could have been stopped way earlier. It was found out that during the transmission hijack, the WTTW transmission tower had no engineers stationed for the duty. The hacking of broadcast in the Max Headroom incident was not very technical at least, the whole incident lasted for a total of 1 minute and 22 seconds before the transmission was back in control. How Max Headroom character hacked the broadcast? The figure was seen being spanked repeatedly with a flyswatter. They are coming to get me! - The man screamed suddenly, and a female voice saying “ Bend over, bitch!“. The camera then moved to shot of a man’s bottom partially exposing his buttocks, and the Max Headroom mask was removed and being held up to the camera, while the rubber extension he was wearing had been stuffed inside the mask’s mouth. He even mentioned Michael Jackson, in a creepy way, of course, holding up a glove similarly as Michael Jackson popularized, and exclaimed “My brother is wearing the other one.” followed by “But it’s dirty! It’s like you got bloodstains on it!”
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Followed by weird muttering, screaming phrases from TV shows of that time, and beginning to moan. Later on, the figure got even creepier, flipping the camera and his middle finger covered using a rubber extension, singing “Your love is fading” from The Temptations - I’m Losing You. The possible reason behind choosing Max Headroom for this hijacking incident by the hijacker was because of the fact that Max Headroom was an artificial character and how creepier it can be using such character to hijack the television broadcasting while most of the Americans are watching. Now, interestingly at that time, Max Headroom was being used as a spokesperson for Coke. The figure didn’t just stop there, it recited the Coca-Cola slogan - “Catch The Wave”. Youtubeįollowed by “He’s a fricken nerd.”, said the masked man, and later mentioning a WGN pundit, Check Swirsky, claimed to be better than himself. The removed mask and the woman with the flyswatter from the Max Headroom incident. There were shocking remarks made by the figure this time, while most of the viewers found it funny, the government didn’t. The WTTW was broadcasting the episode of Doctor Who titled “The Horror of Fang Rock” when the second transmission cut out happened.Īt around 11:15 pm, the same flickering happened following the familiar masked man bobbing on the screen with the grey rotating background, but unlike the first incident, this time the sound was audible. The second hijack of Max Headroom IncidentĪs if the first appearance of creepy Max Headroom was not enough, it appeared back again on the same night around 2 hours after the first incident, but this time on Channel 11.
However, their search was unsuccessful, as the broadcast turned out to be a pre-recording from a third party at a separate location. The masked figure from the Max Headroom incident. The shocking scene appeared on the screen for around 30 seconds after which the signal engineers at WGN broadcasting Channel 9 switched to another transmitter, bringing back Dan Roan on the screen again.Īs confused as the audience, Dan Said, “If you’re wondering what just happened, … ha ha …So am I.”įinding the severity of what just happened, the engineers at the studio, considered the hacking an inside job and as a quick action started searching the whole building for the masked hijacker.
The figure that just appeared started bobbing around with the creepily rotating background and a weird buzzing sound. The sound was hardly audible but whatever it was on the screens that night was scary. A mysteriously dressed creepy character wearing a rubber mask and sunglasses, looking like the AI character Max Headroom along with a simulated grey background broadcasted on the American televisions. What appeared after that was not just shocking but creepy as well.
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