Last Saturday marked 38 years since WGN’s tv signals were hijacked in the “Max Headroom” incident. On November 22nd, 1987 ...
1987: Viewers watching “Doctor Who” on WTTW-TV experienced one of the oddest things ever to cross Chicago televisions — a ...
Who woulda thunk a mostly forgotten 1980s TV character could help a crypto hackathon attract developers? That seems to be the gambit of NEAR Protocol, which this week staged a very weird takeover of ...
Two Chicago television stations were interrupted by an alarming, profane and thoroughly odd pirate broadcast on November 22, ...
The evening report started like any other. Around 9:14 p.m., The Nine O'Clock News blasted sports scores before televisions went completely black. Confused viewers had about fifteen seconds of dead ...
There’s still a fervent online community trying to track down the mystery man behind this legendary broadcast interruption that hit Chicago households back in 1987 during Doctor Who. And honestly, if ...
The Southern Television broadcast interruption that hit south England in November, 1977 sounds like something genuinely out of science fiction. No, really, just listen to it; that night’s news drawl ...