I say “cold case” because yes, hijacking a broadcast signal is a crime. In no time at all, the Max Headroom Signal Intrusion became a cold case and an object lesson in how to pull off a kind of gleefully weird form of hacking. He had a woman in a maid’s outfit use a flyswatter on his bare butt. He mocked WGN and broadcaster Chuck Swirsky. Max scatted the theme to Clutch Cargo, a short-lived (but super-popular) cartoon that ran between 19.
The video is both self-evident and perplexing. Big Head Max hijacked the broadcast signal of public TV station WTTW, taking over during a broadcast of Doctor Who. The longer intrusion happened after eleven.
