09-04-2006, 12:28 PM
I actually saw this live when it happened. Some YouTube user happened to tape the incident -
"During a broadcast of the Dr. Who episode "Horror of Fang Rock" on WTTW Chicago Channel 11, on Sunday November 22nd, 1987, at around 11:15pm, a Video "Pirate" wearing a Max Headroom mask broke into the signal and transmitted one of the weirdest, unauthorized things ever to hit the Chicago airwaves.
Earlier in the evening on the same day, during the Nine O\'Clock News on Channel 9 (Yes, a completely different channel) the Max Headroom Pirate also broke in - although it was for a much shorter time and there was no audio. Needless to say, Dan Rohn (the sports reporter) was a bit flustered.
And no, he was never caught."
Check it out - [url=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPybv_pzK_s\"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPybv_pzK_s[/url]
"During a broadcast of the Dr. Who episode "Horror of Fang Rock" on WTTW Chicago Channel 11, on Sunday November 22nd, 1987, at around 11:15pm, a Video "Pirate" wearing a Max Headroom mask broke into the signal and transmitted one of the weirdest, unauthorized things ever to hit the Chicago airwaves.
Earlier in the evening on the same day, during the Nine O\'Clock News on Channel 9 (Yes, a completely different channel) the Max Headroom Pirate also broke in - although it was for a much shorter time and there was no audio. Needless to say, Dan Rohn (the sports reporter) was a bit flustered.
And no, he was never caught."
Check it out - [url=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPybv_pzK_s\"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPybv_pzK_s[/url]