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Comcast Swaps Pope Broadcast for 'Girls Gone Wild'

by Tim Stevens on April 14, 2009 at 09:52 AM

Comcast Swaps Pope Feed for Girls Gone WildWhile many remember Super Bowl XLIII as a frantic and impressive give-and-take battle between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals, others remember something else -- porn. Viewers watching the game on an NBC affiliate in Tucson, Arizona got more than they bargained for when the station accidentally mixed in about 30 seconds of hardcore pornography during the fourth quarter. Now, Philadelphia Comcast subscribers can lay claim to their own shocking interruption of another sacred program: a 30-second clip of a 'Girls Gone Wild' advertisement inserted in the middle of the Pope's Good Friday Mass.

Comcast was broadcasting the Pope's service live from the Vatican and, according to a Comcast spokesman, had to air a regular, emergency test. This test redirects the viewer to another channel for 30 seconds, during which time the viewer is supposed to receive information about whatever emergency is taking place. In this case, however, that channel was displaying a 'Girls Gone Wild' infomercial -- not something the Pontiff would probably endorse.

It's unclear just how many people experienced the programming gaffe, but amazingly only one viewer called to complain. That, at least, is a reassuring figure in these politically correct times. [From: Philly.com, via Consumerist]

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