Bizarre Hijack of Chicago TV Station Broadcasts Remains a Mystery 30 Years Later

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  • 6 years ago
On the same night in 1987, two Chicago television stations` broadcasts were hijacked, replaced with video of someone wearing a mask of a fictitious 80s sitcom character named Max Headroom. The FCC never figured out who did it or why.

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