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.

Comments (4)

Oh, that’s very interesting! Thank you for letting me know.

Pensive TM

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.

Thank you!

idwiinua

4 months ago

good one!

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