Philadelphia cable glitch switches religious program to racy ad
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia cable network's early morning broadcast of a Good Friday service at the Vatican abruptly changed to something wildly different - a 30-second "Girls Gone Wild" ad.
Comcast spokesman Jeff Alexander says the 2 a.m. Friday programming glitch was due to a required test of the Emergency Alert System. He says such tests are usually done in the overnight hours.
The test automatically tunes viewers to a preselected channel that would provide information in the event of an emergency. But during tests, the channel airs regular programming, which in this case included a paid advertisement for the racy videos.
Alexander says the problem affected the network's entire local area, but only one person called to complain.
I love any time that porn interrupts regular programming because the public response runs the gamut from sheer terror to insane excitement. I tend to end up on the latter. I remember one time the Cartoon Network aired about 5 minutes of hard core porn during the Flintstones, which gives new meaning to the phrase 'Bam Bam'. A truly special moment in television.
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