The Max Headroom TV hijacking was a 1987 broadcast intrusion in Chicago where a masked person dressed as Max Headroom briefly hijacked signals from WGN-TV and later WTTW.

The surreal, rambling interruption lasted about 90 seconds, and the culprits were never caught.

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