The creepy incidents were possible due to the analog broadcast technology at that time, according to Sean Gallagher in Ars Technica. At center screen, a person wore a Max Headroom mask….” It was overlain with the screech of a power saw cutting into metal, or a jet engine malfunctioning. At first, it seemed like an equipment malfunction. Without warning, televisions in the area blasted loud radio static. Caroline Haskins describes it this way in Motherboard: “Suddenly, televisions went silent, and their screens went black. Then, a short while later on a different station, WTTW, the television program Dr. The first intrusion occurred with a newscast on WGN around 9pm.
Despite an intense investigation by the FCC, the mystery remains unsolved.
Kennedy’s death, it is also the day that someone used Max Headroom’s image to hack two Chicago television stations and interrupt their broadcasts. And while most remember November 22 as the anniversary of the assassination of John F. If you were around in the ’80s, two pop culture events stand out: the birth of MTV and the debut of a fictional artificial intelligence character named Max Headroom.