It goes without saying that the FCC and FBI quickly got involved. The operation involved extensive know-how of the sophisticated equipment used to broadcast television and an enormous amount of electricity. From there, the hackers blasted out their Max Headroom video and overwhelmed the studios’ signals. The working theory involves hackers working from the top of a tall building close to the Hancock building and Sears Tower, where WGN and WTTW broadcasted from. “Initially, we checked our internal video sources before thinking about something from the outside.” “By the time our people began looking into what was going on, it was over,” said Anders Yocum, vice president for corporate communications at Channel 11. Sports reporter Dan Rohn apologized for the interference and continued the sports report.
Strutzel said an engineer quickly changed the frequency of the signal that was transmitting the news show to the Hancock building, thus breaking the lock established by the video pirate. “The interfering signal has to be quite strong.”
“You need a significant amount of power to do that,” said Robert Strutzel, WGN`s director of engineering, who was reluctant to discuss the prank in detail for fear of providing a ‘how to’ guide for others. They said it would take extremely high-powered equipment to squeeze out the microwave signals that carry the programs from the stations’ Northwest Side studios to downtown skyscrapers, where they are retransmitted to television sets throughout the Chicago area. Television engineers speculated that the stations had been victimized by a practical joker with an expensive transmitter. Officials of the Federal Communications Commission were not amused as they searched Monday for clues to the identity of the pirate, who somehow managed to override the signals of two television stations in two hours. Off switches are illegal!" Season 2 Lessons Max Headroom: "Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? Don't know the answer? Hmm.This is how the Chicago Tribune reported the incident at the time:
I mean, who's calling the tu-tu-tune-up? Who's in cru-cru-c-cruise control here, anyway? I'll tell you who: Me! Me! Max Headlamp! And if they don't like it, they can stick-stick-stickshift it in their exhaust pipe and cho-choke it! And smoke it!" The Blanks Janie Crane: "An off switch?" Metrocop: "She'll get years for that. Oh, I've fendered it off time and timing belt again. that's because they're air-conditioned to it. If they expect me to change gear now and start spark-spark-sparkplugging their products, they must be out of their pis-pis-pistonheads! Listen, I don't like to blow my own gasket, but I have better things to do than to sit here and wax-polish lyrical about car parts! Car parts! I've got letters from fan-belts who say, 'Max! You're special! You're unique! You're differential!' Yes, yes, I know it's what they want. I'm sorry, but sorry, but if they think I'm endorsing car accessories, they've got another dipstick-stick coming!" Max Headroom: "No, no, they've tried this one before and I'm radial tired of it. Season 1 War Max Headroom: "Hi, this is Max-Max Headroom on Network 23, brought-brought-brought to you by.
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