22nd November 1987: Max Headroom signal hijacking takes control of two Chicago television stations

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The hijackings showed a figure dressed as Max Headroom, a fictional artificial-intelligence television personality created in the mid-1980s and presented as “the world’s first computer-generated TV host”, in front of a sheet of corrugated ...

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