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Chicagoist Weekend Theater: The Max Headroom Hacking Incident

By Jon Graef in News on Nov 23, 2014 8:15PM

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Our Weekend Theater is a YouTube compilation of next-day news reports about the Max Headroom TV hacking incident, which took place 27 years ago yesterday. The Chicago Sun-Times noted the anniversary with a post Saturday. What happened? Well...

Here's the original incident in context:

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