
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Phantom Broadcast: The Max Headroom Signal Hijacking
In today's episode, we're looking back at one of the strangest, most inexplicable events in television history. A moment when reality was hijacked — literally — and no one has ever figured out who did it or why. This is the story of the Max Headroom Signal Hijacking — one of the most famous, and certainly the most bizarre, TV broadcast intrusions that has ever taken place.
4 months ago
From 1973 -1977 I had access to a 50kw transmitter that would have been capable of doing this. It was a military transmitter built to disrupt enemy communications. At the time video was not an option, but signal is signal.
4 months ago
good one!