Hard-core porn interrupts Brokaw broadcast

AP ^ | March 17, 2007

[West Coast Conservative]

A cable news program was temporarily replaced with hard-core pornography, shocking viewers who had been watching a health show featuring former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw.

The incident Monday night on KPPX-TV was “an act of human sabotage” at the Phoenix-area station, said ION Television, which operates the station.

“We have launched a rigorous investigation, and any implicated employees will face strict disciplinary action and termination,” ION Media Networks spokeswoman Leslie Monreal said in a statement.

Brenda Schodt, of Chandler, said she was shocked to look up and see graphic sex acts on her television screen.

“Maybe five or 10 minutes into the show there was no volume,” Schodt said. “I thought it was the TV, but when I looked up, there were these images.”

[Darksheare]

"This is T-HOMMe Broke-jaww.. and this is my propaganda for tonight.. *Oooh! Ahhh!*"

[Dallas59]

...and any implicated employees will face strict disciplinary action and termination....

That sounds kinky....

[Da_Shrimp]

disciplinary action and termination

Termination seems a trifle harsh...

[al baby]

Dam I missed it

[Darksheare]

That's what we get for not watching the news.

Besides, it was an obvious ratings ploy.

[Dallas59]

Forgot muh picture...

...and any implicated employees will face strict disciplinary action and termination....

"Kiss my boots you worm...."

[Doctor Phogg]

One kind of mindless waste replaced by another...

[DownInFlames]

Why, it is just about sex.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

And the difference between NBC News and the porn is...?

[Dallas59]

Anything on cBS or ABC?????

[CzarNicky]

How did they know?

[tanuki]

Bid to raise ratings?

[ken21]

i always thought brokaw, jennings, and rather to be porn.

[LurkingSince1943]

These AP writers have quite a sense of humor.

A "rigorous investigation" sounds kinky as well.

[csvset]

here was no volume

That's okay lady, the soundtrack doesn't add much to the movie.

[clintonh8r]

I'll bet that made old Tom swallow his Ls....

[spunkets]

LOL! VRWC strikes again.

[Dallas59]

"Too much bondage and not enough discipline..."

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

RYMB!

[river rat]

Hell, some of us consider Tom Brokaw as offensive porn.

Semper Fi

[LurkingSince1943]

No wonder Brokaw can't say "meteorological."

His tongue is stiff.

[annelizly]

I'm sorry..but that is TOO FUNNY!!

Can you just imagine everyones faces when that happened??

[pabianice]

The incident Monday night on KPPX-TV was “an act of human sabotage” at the Phoenix-area station, said ION Television, which operates the station

I dunno. Sounds like something cats would do...

[BenLurkin]

Yep

[billhilly]

Kiss my Grits used to be enough to turn us on.

[SuziQ]

And the difference between NBC News and the porn is...?

The porn probably had better cinematography.

[NonValueAdded]

sweeps week? Maybe Perky Katie will try it to boost her ratings.

[GretchenM]

Termination seems a trifle harsh

Not to me. If they worked for me, this one breach of trust would be enough for me to forever want them out of the reach of the possibility of a repeat.

[wally_bert]

I have one sort of related. Back in the mid-80's sometime, some 3/4 inch tapes left an educational station for some local schools. A few of them had the movie "Deep Throat" on them instead of the educational stuff. They were caught before they were played back before the kids.

[24track]

Has anybody talked to Tyler Durden about this?

[GretchenM]

Who is Tyler Durden?

[T Lady]

LOL!

That was one of Cloris Leachman's best roles in a Mel Brooks film.

[D-Chivas]

I still remember the time Tom Brokaw accidentally said the word "bukkake" on the air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AZtWGB1Khc

[Publius6961]

Termination seems a trifle harsh...

Non-termination is harsher.
This is not a high-school prank.

The station could be subject to huge fines as it is, even if it was sabotage.
I would consider termination the mildest of consequences. Prosecution and jail time should be added as deterrent.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

"Substituting for Tom tonight...."

[ladyjane]

Booadcastus interruptus.

You knew that was coming.

[ronnie raygun]

This was their plan all along, they're desperate! What can we do to get the viewers back? vou a la! PORNO, YEA,YEA THATS THE TICKET!

[Farmer Dean]

I think he meant termination as in take them out back and shoot them.

[24track]

Tyler Durden is the main character in the movie Fight Club. One of the things that he does in that movie is to splice porn into other films. Hence the comment.

[Erasmus]

A friend of mine became el Jefe de los Ingenieros at a station.

He noticed that some of the boys in master control were punching up the Playboy channel on a spare dish late at night for their private, ah, amusement.

He put out a memo saying that anyone accidentally puching it onto the air would be fired.

Guess what happened about 3 o'clock one morning a couple weeks later.

[bluefish]

Shouldn't humblegunner be capitalized? It is a Proper Noun afterall.

[BykrBayb]

Prosecution and jail time, yeah. But to schedule them for termination? That does seem just a tad harsh.

[Da_Shrimp]

I think he meant termination as in take them out back and shoot them.

Indeed I did!

Weak joke backfires, shock horror! ;-)