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The Max Headroom signal hijacking (also known as the Max Headroom incident) was a hijacking of the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, on November 22, 1987, that briefly sent a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers.
A broadcast signal intrusion is the hijacking of broadcast signals of radio, television stations, cable television broadcast feeds or satellite signals without permission or licence. Hijacking incidents have involved local TV and radio stations as well as cable and national networks.
Great Falls, Montana, the first city to be effected by the hijacking on February 11, 2013, at 2:30 pm. On February 11, 2013, the Emergency Alert System of five different television stations across the U.S. states of Montana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and New Mexico were hijacked, interrupting each television broadcast with a local area emergency message warning viewers of the resurrection of ...
But Terry Newsome, a white Chicago dad-turned-activist found there were 720 police incident reports logged at the Standard Club alone over the past 12 months.
WJYS (channel 62) is an independent television station licensed to Hammond, Indiana, United States, serving the Chicago area. Owned by Millennial Telecommunications, Inc., WJYS maintains studio facilities on South Oak Park Avenue in Tinley Park, Illinois, and its transmitter is located atop the Willis Tower.
The station first signed on the air on October 8, 1948, as WNBQ; it was the fourth television station to sign on in Chicago. [1] [3] It was also the third of NBC's five original owned-and-operated television stations to begin operations, after WNBC-TV in New York City and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and before WKYC in Cleveland and KNBC in Los Angeles.
Skyscraper Live with Nik Wallenda is a Discovery Channel special that aired on November 2, 2014. The special was billed as a highwire walk by Nik Wallenda across the city of Chicago in the United States. [1] Specifically, he walked wires between three skyscrapers "all of which are taller than the Washington Monument." On one of the walks, he ...
Sometime before 1:50 PM, Nightengale fatally shot 30-year-old Yiran Fan, a PHD student from China, in the head as he sat in his vehicle in a Hyde Park parking garage. [4] [5] Shortly afterwards, Nightengale entered an apartment building at 4940 S. East End Ave., where he fatally shot doorwoman 46-year-old Aisha Johnson and wounded a 77-year-old-woman in the head as she grabbed her mail.