Posted on 02/02/2009 5:39:28 AM PST by JZelle
PHOENIX - A Tucson television station's broadcast of the Super Bowl on Sunday was interrupted for some viewers by about 10 seconds of pornographic material, the station said.
KVOA TV in Tucson released a statement saying that the only viewers who were able to see the material were those who receive the channel through Comcast cable.
The station said it will investigate the incident.
"When the NBC feed of the Super Bowl was transmitted from KVOA to local cable providers and through over-the-air antennas, there was no pornographic material," KVOA president and general manager Gary Nielsen said in a statement.
The KVOA statement said the station was dismayed and disappointed that some Comcast customers and their families were subjected to the material.
"KVOA will continue to investigate what happened to our clean signal and make sure our viewers get answers," Nielsen said in the statement.
Comcast spokeswoman Tracy Baumgartner confirmed that the company's standard feed was interrupted during the Super Bowl, although she said its high definition feed was not.
Baumgartner said engineers were investigating Sunday night.
Tucson media outlets reported that they received calls from irate viewers about the pornographic material.
A spokesman for Cox Cable said the company had not been affected.
"We have received no evidence that any inappropriate material was broadcast on any of our channels during the Super Bowl," Mike Dunne said. "The alleged incident appears to be isolated to the Comcast territory. We will offer our support to all appropriate organizations to help them determine what happened."
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No, it was a Lewinsky
Any thing with Keith Overbite is pornograpghy.
Interesting. Israel was recently doing this in Palestine...
It's all garbage.
Having said that, how difficult is it to splice into a cable outside your house and parallel another feed in?
You mean it wasn’t just one of those over the top SuperBowl Ads? Wow...did they fool me! ;>)
Someone gets effed at every superbowl
I predict some low level person will be fired because of this.
(Whoa, am I going out on a limb, or what?)
Yeah, the wife and I were none too thrilled about the Go Daddy ad with the never-was Danica Patrick and the "enhanced" other. Not in that time slot for a "family" program.
Porn Flick? I thought those were just the networks plugging their nightly line up?
Probably right. The best theory I’ve heard on this is that some guys in the production booth at the local station were probably watching porn on one of their feeds. Then when it was time to say cut over from the national commercial feed to maybe a recorded local commercial they cut to the wrong line - hence putting up their private show instead of the local ad that was supposed to run. The guys on duty last night are probably toast.
Wow, ComCast offers FREE pron!
Where do I sign up?
Wasn’t GoDaddy. I didn’t see the clip because I was watching an HD feed but but the people watching in the other room apparently got quite a view!!
These stories are getting to be a cliche.
That would be Master Control, not the production booth. Two different things.
I wonder if it was from “Debby Does Dallas”?
...Well, it’s sort of Super Bowl themed.
That would have effected everybody not just Comcast customers. The core theory is probably correct (guys watching porn on the job), but it was probably Comcast employees that were supposed to be switching to a Comcast ad.
I saw it and thought ir was a commercial. I called my son in Indiana to complain about the disgusting commercial; he thought I was delusional. LOL
It was from Jenna Jameson’s porn channel.
Except it was an interruption; after 30 seconds it went back to the broadcast.
I saw it on TMZ and thought it a joke until this thread.
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