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Max Headroom signal hijacking
The (also known as the Max Headroom incident) a hijacking of the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, on November 22, 1987, that briefly sent a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers.
The Max Headroom Show
a television series that debuted in the UK in 1985.
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