Can it be done today?
>>198577073Both Max Headroom (the real property) and the television hijacking stunt version of Max Headroom were peak 1980s.
>>198577073Why bother when you could just get the woman in the video to act slutty on tiktok for 100x more viewers?
Captain Midnight's take over of HBO was more impressive but since he got caught, Chicago Max wins in the end.
>>198577073Why did he do it?
>>198577073The way he says ooooohhhhh really cracks me up.
>>198577151He was annoyed that Doctor Who was a rerun that night.
>>198577151Inside job of a disgruntled employee.
>>198577151Back then, it didn't take as much effort for people itching to participate in large scale pranks to just go for it. Nowadays, people have to worry about more legal troubles, but it was just the sort of thing that someone could have done during the 1980s, or maybe even as late as the 1990s.
>>198577073We've mostly moved to digital, as opposed to analogue signals. So not as easily, no.
>>198577278He worked for WGN and WTTW?
>>198577350It would almost certainly require a violent takeover of a network/studio to pull something off like that, nowadays.
>>198577380A motivated insider could probably pull it off.They would likely be caught, though.
fat chance
I am an optometrist, and I had a patient that actually worked in broadcast signalling and I got the opportunity to ask them this very question.Short answer, no, it can't. The technology we have today is far too advanced to jam and then broadcast an alternative tape; even in the 80s, the gentlemen who did this would have had to park, pedo-style, in a big white van with broadcast signal intrusion equipment, as close as possible to the parking lot.
>>198577151His love was fading.
>>198577313>didn’t take much effortThat may have been true for some pranks, but they had to override a very powerful signal…being broadcast from the top of the Sears tower. I think this one of the more technically impressive pranks of all time.
>>198577073This guy actually had a teenage girl he could slap on the ass. How many 4channers haven’t even done that?
>>198577073anyone else actually see this go down? I was like lol wtf.
I don't think anyone care if a television or radio station got hijacked. It's boring. Big whup.
>>198577164I JUST MADE A GIANT MASTERPIECE IN MY DIAPER FOR ALL THE WORLDS GREATEST /TV/ POSTER NERDS, UUUOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>198577151They were making a move, man. He had to get it on.
>>198581276Fairly unlikely. Though there are more people here that are old enough to have seen it than most acknowledge, that it was on a local PBS station limits the number of potential viewers. The short intrusion onto WGN's signal could have been seen on cable systems nationwide since WGN was a superstation but not many people outside of the Chicago area would have bothered to watch the local Chicago news, which is when the signal hijacking took place.The Captain Midnight signal hijacking got more press attention but was far less weird than the Max Headroom stuff.
This guy will never admit he did it because you just know there is an angry boomer still with the FCC waiting to lock him up out of spite
