![]() ![]() Later that same evening, during a PBS broadcast of Doctor Who, the screen went to black once again and the masked Max Headroom returned, along with poorly-rendered audio. Then the image disappeared, the screen went black, then popped right back to the Channel 9 news, where a perplexed sportscaster admitted he had no idea what had just happened, quickly blaming it on a computer glitch.Had it ended there, the intrusion would have probably slipped into obscurity. There was no sounds, save a few pops and buzzes off-screen. Then this image popped up… For twenty seconds, a person wearing a Max Headroom mask (a familiar pop culture figure in the 1980s) swayed and bobbed on camera, accompanied by a rotating sheet of steel to mimic the CGI background of the Headroom character. During the newscast’s recap of a Chicago win over the Detroit Lions, the screen went dark for a few seconds. ![]() On a chilly Sunday evening across Chicagoland, thousands sat watching Channel 9’s evening news broadcast. ![]()
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