Bizarre News of the Day: Good Friday Broadcast Glitch Turns into “Girls Gone Wild”
- Posted by Jennifer on April 13th, 2009
Cable glitch switches religious program to racy ad
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia cable network’s early morning broadcast of a 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 glitch was due to a required test of 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 problem affected the network’s entire local area, but only one person called to complain.
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