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April 11th, 2009, 03:34 PM #1
From Philly: Good Friday broadcast morphs to "Girls Gone Wild"
Good Friday broadcast morphs to "Girls Gone Wild"
Saturday, April 11, 2009
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA--A cable network's early morning broadcast of Good Friday service at the Vatican abruptly changed to something wildly different--a 30-second "Girls Gone Wild" ad.
Comcast spokesman Jeff Alexander says the 2 a.m. Friday programming snafu was due to a required test for the Emergency Alert System. He says such tests are usually done in the overnight hours.
The test automatically tunes viewers to a preselected channel that would provide information in the event of an emergency. But during tests, the channel airs regular programming, which in this case included a paid advertisement for the racy videos.
Alexander says the glitch affected the cable network's entire local area, but only one person called to complain.
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