Friday, March 16, 2007
Cable Program Interrupted by Porn Images
Joseph W. Cox
The Arizona RepublicMar. 13, 2007 04:10 PM
Some Cox Communications cable customers may have seen much more than they wanted Monday night as sexually explicit content interrupted programming on the ION Network.
Julie Brazil, a Cox customer, reported the incident to Cox Communications and The Arizona Republic Monday night. She said a program she was watching on channel 17 with her two young children was interrupted by pornographic images.
"It was like the TV went silent and all of sudden it flipped to another channel." Brazil said.
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The program interrupted was called ION Life, a show about the "State of US Healthcare" hosted by Tom Brokaw according to the Cox TV listings. The program was interrupted for about five minutes.
It is still unclear how the explicit content made its was way onto the screen. Andrea Katsenes, a spokeswoman for Cox Communications, said that the problem came from the ION Network, not through Cox.
"It was definitely a source problem," Katsenes said.
The ION Network could not be reached for comment.
Actually it was traffic's fault, but they somehow get off scott free. That's the way stuff works at [Nameless Company], anyway.
BOJ
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Generally, when this kind of thing happens, nobody complains until the offensive material goes away...
Imagine how upset they would be if they had the tvo going or their vcr programmed to record....they'd have to view the offensive stuff over and over again!
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: 11:43 AM
Wow, porn on a non-porn channel. People at >nameless companies competitor< have lost their jobs over that (yes, recently). If it was at the source, some engineer was probably monkeying around to descramble the adult channel (as so many of us have in the past).
This country is too uptight about this sort of thing. The woman who made the complaint, having the last name of Brazil, makes me think about how much Latin America doesn't seem to care about such mishaps.
Quin
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This country is too uptight about this sort of thing. The woman who made the complaint, having the last name of Brazil, makes me think about how much Latin America doesn't seem to care about such mishaps.
Quin
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