Max headroom interruption
All of that and more on the podcast that's never been hacked (unless you count the robot co-host) - Hysteria 51.
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Plus Conspiracy Bot goes all Outer Limits on us, then C-Bot decides to go hack someone else's podcast with Kyle's help, and Moxie LaBouche of the Your Brain on Facts podcast goes slummin' and joins this dumpster fire to help sort out the insanity. So grab you New Coke, pop in a blank VHS and hit record as we cover the The Max Headroom Signal Hijacking this week. On June 3, 2014, at 1:07 PM, during an airing of the SpongeBob episode, 'Squid's Day Off', Nick Studio 10 did another one of their crappy interruptions. The strangest thing? The case has never been solved. The character was created by George Stone, Annabel Jankel, and Rocky Morton. The strange broadcast interruption was a weird blend of anti-establishment rant and absurdist comedy (with some spanking thrown in for good measure). Max Headroom is a British fictional artificial intelligence (AI) character, known for his wit, stuttering and pitch-shifting voice. The only way to sum this up in a single sentence is to say that a man was dressed as Max Headroom and crazy in ways most crazy people can only longingly aspire to. And while the content wasn't sinister - it certainly did cause an uproar. This was a television broadcast interruption, breaking into WGN-TV and WTTW on November 22, 1987. M-M-M-Max Headroom Broadcast Interruption Television viewers in the Chicago area were shocked and confused on 22 November 1987, when the Nine Oclock News was interrupted by a clip of a man. The Max Headroom Signal Hijacking took place here in the lower 4th (Chicago) on two separate stations (WGN / WTTW) on the same November night in 1987.
Well, we long for those simpler times and on this week's episode we're covering one of the most famous in history (hijacking broadcast signals…not naughty pictures). The footage starts with a man disguised as television personality Max Headroom, referring to an unknown individual who the presenter describes as a 'frickin nerd' before mentioning Chuck Swirsky and laughing. Remember the good old days when hacking didn't mean election tampering? It just meant pirating a broadcast signal or putting a less than appropriate picture on the front page of someone's website. The Doctor Who interruption appeared to have been pre-recorded, and was transmitted during the first part of Horror of Fang Rock.