Most people consider Max Headroom an artifact of the 1980s, the sort of personality that -- like Teddy Ruxpin or Clara Peller of "Where's the beef?" fame -- most of us think about only while ...

Last Saturday marked 38 years since WGN’s tv signals were hijacked in the “Max Headroom” incident. On November 22nd, 1987 someone, dressed as “Max Headroom,” hacked into the signal at WGN and PBS.

In the post-apocalyptic future where television sets are more important than food, TV ratings are the all important currency of the nation. A new technique of preventing viewers from channel surfing ...