After 28 seconds off air, the 9:00 news finally comes back on. Station engineers, panicking, manage to shift their broadcast frequency. A loud, grating buzzing noise is all that can be heard. They’re nodding at the camera, maybe laughing, or trying to say something. They’re sitting in front of a slab of corrugated metal spinning one way then the other, back and forth, hypnotically. It’s somebody in a tan suit, wearing sunglasses over a mask of “Max Headroom” – a fictional AI character from an 80’s T.V series. They scramble.Īfter 15 seconds, a low-quality video appears on screen. In the WGN-TV control room in the north of the city, technicians are baffled. The screen is black for thousands of Chicago homes. He’s about to crush this poor quarterback when suddenly, without warning, the signal cuts out. Bears lineman Richard Dent comes rushing around his blocker, and opens his arms wide, heading straight for Long. Onscreen, Lions quarterback Chuck Long drops back into the pocket. ![]() Sports anchor Dan Roan is reviewing an easy 30-to-10 win of the 8-and-2 Chicago Bears over their hapless rivals, the 2-and-8 Detroit Lions. Channel 9 is running its 9 o’clock news hour. Today’s story begins on November 22nd, 1987, at 9:14 p.m. Welcome back to Malicious Life, in collaboration with Cybereason.
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