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Max Headroom 1987 Pirate TV Incident

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Some of you may be familiar with this one but for those that aren't, here's a quick rundown of the events. * The first incident occurred during the sports segment of the WGN 9:00 p.m. news broadcast; During the sports section of the 9pm news broadcast on Americas WGN network, an unauthorised signal over powered the sations transmitters and was broadcast for over a minute. The signal had no audio, but the video was of someone in a Max Headroom mask gesturing at the camera. The second of these incidents occured during the evening broadcast of Dr Who on WTTW. This time the signal had audio and viewers were witness to a unintelligble rant from the 'fake' Max Headroom character. We have cleaned the audio up somewhat and removed a lot of the noise present. Although the vocoding type interference is still there it should be a lot easier to understand what is being said in this version. Original source was from www.fuzzymemories.tv For more info on this and more then please visit www.hack247.co.uk

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: hack247

Length: 01:50
Rating: 4.66
Views: 15853

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KingCesar10121 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Today is the 21st annyversery :D
txngasnguns (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I've looked at a few videos of William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn and I shit you not... I am seriously starting to think that thats who is in this video. Does anyone else think this is a possibility?
MnkyKng (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
it Made Me Laugh
voutespancar (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
this is fantastic, too bad we'll probably never know who it was
GeraldWatercrest (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I swear, this is the best thing to happen in the 20th century. Remember, remember the 22nd of November.
Xontar02 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is by far the "cleanest" audio I've heard. You need to remember the original piece was heavily distorted.
Anus2Mouth (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Max Headroom is the FIRST LSD blotter I ever dropped. WHEW that was some shit back in the 80s
asdffd (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I bet if someone did some research to find out if there were some young artists in the area who were exhibiting video art at the time they could find out who was behind this. Whoever the folks were who were behind it have probably gotten a kick out of seeing it on YouTube.
reinforcedpenisstem (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
To suggest that this was recorded on a home computer in 1987 is ludicrous. Devo used all analogue synthesisers and recorded to tape, and, the effect your talking about is not a bit-crusher, but a ring-modulator.
901truth (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Hack247,watch the video I captured from a youtube hoax.I have been trying to send a message but these servers suck and it never shows up in my mailbox.Interesting odd hoax and the pretty young girl in the video was part of it.Was this a hack? I doubt someone was using this forum to sell female sex aids. Ha HA

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