Last Saturday marked 38 years since WGN’s tv signals were hijacked in the “Max Headroom” incident. On November 22nd, 1987 someone, dressed as “Max Headroom,” hacked into the signal at WGN and PBS.

Technically speaking, though, the character is officially dead. Appearing in a series of adverts for the Channel in 2007, directed by Rocky Morton, Max Headroom was used not for advertising ...

There’s still a fervent online community trying to track down the mystery man behind this legendary broadcast interruption that hit Chicago households back in 1987 during Doctor Who. And honestly, if ...