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The hacker made references to Max Headroom's endorsement of Coca-Cola, the TV series Clutch Cargo, WGN anchor Chuck Swirsky; and 'all the greatest world newspaper nerds', a reference to WGN's call letters, which stand for 'World's Greatest Newspaper'. A corrugated panel swiveled back and forth mimicking Max Headroom's geometric background effect. Jan 30, 2020  Super Bowl 2020: Looking back on Joe Greene's famous Coca-Cola commercial on its 40th anniversary The commercial was significant for several reasons.

The unidentified hacker dressed to resemble as seen in the pirate broadcast.DateNovember 22, 1987; 32 years ago ( 1987-11-22)VenueLocationParticipantsUnidentifiedA of two television stations in was carried out on November 22, 1987, in an act of video. The stations' broadcasts were interrupted by a video of an unknown person wearing a mask and costume, accompanied by distorted audio.The first incident took place for 25 seconds during the sports segment of 's 9:00 p.m. News broadcast; the second occurred around two hours later, for about 90 seconds during PBS affiliate 's broadcast of.The hacker made references to Max Headroom's endorsement of, the TV series, WGN anchor; and 'all the greatest world newspaper nerds', a reference to WGN's call letters, which stand for '. A corrugated panel swiveled back and forth mimicking Max Headroom's geometric background effect. The video ended with a pair of exposed buttocks being spanked with a flyswatter before normal programming resumed.

The culprits were never caught or identified. Video of the WGN-TV intrusionThe first of two took place during the sports segment of a live broadcast of WGN-TV's. For 15 seconds, the screen went black, then displayed a person wearing a mask and sunglasses, accompanied by a buzzing sound and swaying in front of a rotating panel that mimicked Max Headroom's geometric background effect. The hijack lasted 28 seconds, and was stopped after engineers at WGN switched the of their link to the transmitter atop the.Following the incident, sports anchor commented, 'Well, if you're wondering what's happened, so am I', and joked that the computer running the news 'took off and went wild'; he then repeated his report of the day's game. Video of the WTTW intrusionLater that night, during a broadcast of the Doctor Who serial on local PBS station, the signal was again interrupted by video of the Max Headroom impersonator, this time with distorted audio.The masked figure made a reference to WGN sportscaster, whom he called a 'frickin' liberal', held up a can of while saying ' (a slogan from an ad campaign for Coca-Cola featuring the character Max Headroom), and held up a middle finger (inside what appeared to be a hollowed-out ).

After singing the phrase ', humming the theme song to the 1959 TV series, and saying 'I still see the X' (a reference to the last episode of that show), he said he had 'made a giant masterpiece for all the Greatest World Newspaper nerds' (WGN's call letters stand for '). He then partially exposed his buttocks, saying 'they're coming to get me', while a female figure him with a flyswatter. After a few moments of static, viewers were returned to the Doctor Who broadcast.The signal takeover lasted 90 seconds. WTTW, which maintained its transmitter atop the, found that its engineers were unable to stop the hijacker due to the fact that there were no engineers on duty at the Sears Tower at the time of the hijacking.

According to station spokesman Anders Yocom, technicians monitoring the transmission from WTTW headquarters 'attempted to take corrective measures, but couldn't'. 'By the time our people began looking into what was going on, it was over,' he told the Chicago Tribune. WTTW received numerous phone calls from viewers who wondered what had occurred for the duration of the intrusion. WTTW was able to find copies of the hijacker's telecast with the help of Doctor Who fans who had been taping the show.

Legal issues An investigating engineer quoted at the time said the perpetrators of the intrusion faced a maximum $100,000 fine, up to a year in prison, or both. Cultural impact Not long after the incident, humorously inserted clips of the hijacking into a newscast during 's sports highlights. 'A lot of people thought it was real – the pirate cutting into our broadcast. We got all kinds of calls about it,' said Giangreco.According to, the incident became an influential ' hacking trope'. Thirty years later, the identity of the hijackers remained unknown.

See also. Ross, Andrew (1990).

In Mellencamp, Patricia (ed.). Logics of Television: Essays in Cultural Criticism. Indiana University Press. P. 138. Schwoch, James; White, Mimi; Reilly, Susan (1992). P. 113.

Forester, Tom; Morrison, Perry (1994). Several other instances of uplink video piracy have occurred. WTTW (Channel 11 in Chicago) was also overridden by a 90 second transmission, this time by a man in a Max Headroom mask smacking his exposed buttocks with a fly swatter.

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^ Camper, John; Daley, Steve (November 24, 1987). Chicago Tribune. Strutzel said an engineer quickly changed the frequency of the signal that was transmitting the news show to the Hancock building, thus breaking the lock established by the video pirate. (Videotape). 23 November 2017.

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'Bogus Max Headroom pirates 2 TV stations, drops his pants'. The Palm Beach Post. Associated Press. November 24, 1987.

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Retrieved June 26, 2016 – via HighBeam Research.Further reading. Berke, Jeremy (7 July 2015). Atlas Obscura. The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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