Cable Company Replaces Super Bowl With Porn

Comcast has technicians who fall asleep on the job, long-running battles with the NFL Network and sneaky attempts to ruin BitTorrent. Now they have Super Bowl porn as well.

Just after Larry Fitzgerald gave the Cardinals a lead with roughly three minutes to play, Tucson Comcast viewers saw the game replaced by about 30 seconds of male full frontal nudity, as the company's Club Jenna channel briefly interrupted the game feed. Considering that every television in Arizona was probably on the Super Bowl at the time, they only managed to make sure that every cable customer in the area got an eyeful.

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.
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Tucson media outlets reported that they received calls from irate viewers about the pornographic material.
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"I couldn't believe it. And I couldn't believe that my children were watching it either," Hilander said.

Parents started flooding complaint lines at Comcast and the local newspaper just after the game came back on. The Arizona Daily Star's story had 325 comments by early Monday morning, almost all of them from parents who are angry that their kids are now asking for the birds and bees talk earlier than they had planned.

The area's NBC station was able to vouch for the fact that it wasn't their problem. For their part, Comcast is baffled as to how it happened.

What I'm wondering is: why is it that whenever this happens it always seems to be a porn channel? You never hear of a cable screw-up leading to Food Network or Discovery Channel replacing the Super Bowl telecast. Nope, it's full blown hardcore porn that ensures that parents around the area are all checking out how they can switch to DirecTV.