This time, the hijackers were able to successfully transmit their message, albeit with heavily distorted audio.
WHO DID THE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT SERIAL
The second hijacking took place nearly exactly two hours later, around 11:15, on WTTW (a PBS station) during an airing of the Doctor Who serial Horror of Fang Rock. Roan returned to the screen, saying, "Well, if you're wondering what just happened, so am I". The intrusion ended thirty seconds later. The noise was likely due to a failure to hijack the station's audio frequencies. Around 9:15 PM, a sports report by anchor Dan Roan during the station's flagship primetime news program, The Nine O'Clock News (now known as WGN News at Nine) was interrupted by a distorted, shaking background, an ominous buzzing noise, and the face of a man in a Max Headroom mask. The first hijacking took place during a news broadcast on Chicago television station WGN-TV (an independent station at the time, now an independent station again after having been a network affiliate in some sort between 19). While speculation at the time suggested the hijacking was a form of protest or even a terrorist attack, it is widely accepted to be an elaborate prank. The pirate broadcasts involved a man wearing a mask of 80s pop-culture character Max Headroom. The Max Headroom Television Hijackings was a 1987 incident in which a group of at least three people interrupted television airings on November 22 on two occasions and two different stations in Chicago. A screenshot taken from one of the footages from the hijack.
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