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remember the max headroom incident
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kd8hho said:
Hard to believe it's been nearly 20 years since that incident made national headlines. Apparently, not only was WTTW/Channel 11 affected but, to a lesser extent, so was WGN-TV/Channel 9 as well. I'm not sure that the national feed was affected (which at the time was a total clone of "Chicago's Very Own", Channel 9). I'm sure that technology has advanced so much that such an event would be harder to pull off. Fortunately, (or one would hope that) the "Max Headroom" folks have graduated from the sandbox to other venues, not so destructive. (Man I hated the taste of "New Coke".) Twenty years later, I cannot help but think that only an engineer could do such a thing as overriding an STL link. At that time, STL units were not your run-off-the-mill items, right off the shelf. Oh, well.
...I've always thought that the inspiration for the perpetrators of this prank was the 1980 Marshall Brickman movie Simon. In it, Alan Arkin's title character breaks into the ABC, NBC and CBS evening newscasts by use of microwave equipment found in a van owned by a sinister think tank...
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