30-second Porn clip interrupting the Super Bowl
I guess you heard that someone hacked into Comcast Cable's transmission of the Super Bowl and played a 30-second porn clip.
Some of Tyler Durden's best work, I say.
TMZ.com has a replay of the interruption with all the naughty bits covered up. Go to this link:
... and look for "Porn Clip Penetrates Super Bowl".
See the story below.
Project Mayhem lives on!
http://www.multichannel.com/article/173525-Comcast_Offers_10_Credit_Afte...
Comcast Offers $10 Credit After Super Bowl Porn Blunder
Operator's Tucson System Continues to Investigate Possible 'Malicious Act'
By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 2/2/2009 7:14:25 PM MT
Comcast is offering a $10 credit to Tucson, Ariz., subscribers "impacted" by a 30-second porn clip that interrupted the local NBC affiliate's Super Bowl XLIII broadcast Sunday.
The clip from Shorteez, a hard-core pay-per-view adult channel owned by Playboy Enterprises, appeared in the standard-definition feed of KVOA-TV on Comcast's local system in the game's fourth quarter immediately after the Arizona Cardinals scored to take a 23-20 lead with less than three minutes to go in the game. The HD version was unaffected.
The 30-second clip showed full-frontal male nudity, the Tucson Citizen reported. A second clip, which also aired during the telecast, showed about 10 seconds of end credits for Club Jenna, another Playboy-owned adult pay-per-view channel, according to the newspaper.
"We can't undo what happened, but we remain deeply sorry for the impact this situation has had on our customers," Comcast Tucson corporate affairs manager Kelle Maslyn said in a statement Monday. "To that end, we will be issuing a $10 credit to any Comcast video customer in Tucson who was impacted. While this credit won't change what happened, we hope that it will demonstrate to our customers, and to the Tucson community, how seriously we are taking this situation."
Maslyn said Comcast is "continuing with our investigation into what we believe may have been an isolated, malicious act, and will aggressively pursue all leads until we come to resolution."
Comcast customers in the Tucson area seeking the credit were directed to call (888) 315-8219.
"We are appalled this highly inappropriate material was displayed for some Comcast customers," Gary Nielsen, president and general manager of KVOA Communications, said in a statement posted on KVOA's site.
Comcast Tucson receives the KVOA feed through an arrangement with Cox Communications. Mike Dunne, Cox director of media relations for southern Arizona, said no porn was broadcast to the MSO's customers. "We have received no evidence that any inappropriate material was broadcast on any of our channels during the Super Bowl," he said in a statement Monday. "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."
Media watchdog group Parents Television Council president Tim Winter urged the companies involved to take immediate steps to ensure that "this type of indecent material does not air again during times when children are in the audience."
"These ‘accidents' seem to happen more often than they should, and if it truly was an accident, why is it always porn that's aired?" Winter said in a statement. "TV station ‘accidents' never include a rerun of the The Cosby Show.... if someone intentionally caused it, then that person or persons need to be properly dealt with."
In a similar 2007 incident, Comcast broadcast porn to subscribers in New Jersey during an episode of Disney Channel children's show Handy Manny.
It's things like this that make me wish I were a football fan. But alas, this does raise an interesting point: why are we so complacant with violence and gore in the media, and don't give a shit if children see any of it, yet when someone even mentions sex we sound the alarms? I'm sure this has been discussed before, but after reading today that Wal-Mart is censoring the DVD cover for "Zach and Miri make a Porno" by blacking out half of the title (guess which half), it's my cause du jour.
i think if you're watching somthing called "Handy Manny" you shouldnt be suprized to see porn.
i'm a terrible person, in more ways than one.
i had that exact thought, actually. and then hated myself for almost saying it.
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“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin
does he really swing it around like that?
oh dear god.
"TV station ‘accidents' never include a rerun of the The Cosby Show....
Actually, I work in a TV station, and we once aired the opening credits of a Cosby Show rerun by mistake. Last week we aired the opening of Knight Rider by mistake too. We aired scrambled porn once by mistake, but that was several years ago. I guess I don't work ay a very good tv station.
"...human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars."
I think the obvious joke would be to say how every one watching just thought it was another GoDaddy.com commercial.
"does he really swing it around like that?
oh dear god."
I think that is called "the helicopter".
Ugh.
who ever did it was brilliant
revolution lives!! ;D
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holy shit thats funny
www.triplebeard.com
http://darkroomreview.blogspot.com
“...There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one's head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
-James Baldwin