598K views · 6.1K reactions | Max Headroom Signal Hijacking | 1980sGamer | Facebook

One of the greatest mysteries in broadcast history remains unsolved to this day. On November 22, 1987 someone—maybe a group of people—hijacked WGN’s signal and interrupted the 9:00 News. And our Dan Roan was right in the thick of it. As Dan prepares to retire from WGN on May 26th, here are his thoughts on that night in a report from 2017 on the 30th anniversary. | WGN TV

The Max Headroom Signal Highjacking 😨 #maxheadroom #creepy #mystery #unsolved #unexplained #ghosttoast | GhostToast

The Max Headroom signal hijacking was a hijacking of the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, on November 22, 1987, that briefly sent a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers. It was one of the first and only successful TV signal hijackings in the U.S. With all sorts of shenanigans going on the video concluded on PBS with the masked figure presenting his bare buttocks to a woman with a flyswatter while y