Reel Pop features a historical video clip that is both disturbing and fascinating:
(via BoingBoing) In 1987 a "sophisticated video pirate with an unsophisticated sense of humor" managed to override the signals of Chicago's WTTW-TW Channel 11 broadcast of the British science fiction series "Dr. Who" and, two hours earlier, made an unauthorized 28-second appearance in the middle of a newscast on WGN-TV Channel 9. Both times, the video pirate wore a Max Headroom mask.
WATCH THE VIDEOThose pirates had some expensive equipment and know how to pull that stunt off. While Houston seems to have a lot of radio pirates broadcasting rap stations in southwest Houston, I have never heard of any video pirates.
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