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Comcast airs porn during Super Bowl

Heck. Youtube removed it! I guess we don't get to see what the excitement is all about.

Seriously, this must have been the work of a hacker. A large number of the posts at the Arizona Daily Star say that there were TWO interruptions. The first was a list of credits for a movie and then the porn excerpt later. The first was likely a trial to see if it worked. That suggests a hacker to me and not some mistake on the part of Comcast.

Many of the responders are writing the FCC but they don't regulate what cable airs do they? If it had been over the air and fed to Comcast then the station would be regulated but the station says the feed was clean when they sent it to Comcast so the FCC does not have jurisdiction does it?
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reply to IGGY
I recorded the game on DVR. One of the linked sites (above) said it occurred after Cardinal player Fitzgerald scored a touchdown at less than 3 min. in the game. I saw nothing, so the incident was localized to Tusconans (people in Tuscon, Arizona). We don't need an investigation; we know who did it... a Comcast employee in Arizona.

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( taken from another forum )

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»www.break.com/usercontent/2009/2···644.html

reply to Mdoc
From one article I read the blame is currently being passed around at the moment. The local television station says it wasn't them. That station gets it's feed from Comcast. From Comcast perspective they are pointing in the direction of Cox Communications. Comcast has stated that Cox provides the signal for KVOA, the local television station.

My original point in posting this was to point out how there are some vulnerabilities in the communications infrastructure. These haven't been fully addressed. Although moving signals to digital might reduce the likelihood of some problems or security concerns taking place.
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Probably similar to what happened to WGN Chicago.

reply to IGGY
Whoever did it would have had to possess a digital "QAM modulator" and would have had to take the bandwidth and "IF it" to the correct channel. That was a digital signal interruption and the powerup of the modulator froze the existing picture. The channel which appeared was one of the SPICE channels, so it's easy to determine if that cable system *carries* that particular SPICE channel. I'll bet they do.

Therefore, looks to me as though a channel modulator suddenly "popped" to the wrong frequency, perhaps as a technician restarted a failed modulator and it appeared there until the allocation error was "caught." Let's just say "accident" if the cable system carries the SPICE channels. It's highly unlikely that some "hacker" would be able to guess too many things correctly and insert that into the programming like back in the "analog" days. That was definitely a digital signal override if you look at the freeze of NBC followed by the digital squares when the other signal overtook it. My guess? Whoopsie with a modulator for another channel overtaking the NBC channel modulator at the system's head-end. VERY likely to be an accident.

Well, I'll be. I was watching SPICE about that time and I kept noticing the superbowl interrupting my fun time.

reply to IGGY
An associate told me about this true story....

A fellow worked at a (Will Remain Un-Named) company that fed movies to hotels via microwave link... (That's all you get from me on this), and was airing "Sound of Music"..
He didn't want to watch that, so he was watching "Deep Throat" off of another vtr, on the preview buss of the system, while "Sound of Music" was on program buss.

All went fine, until the tape machine playing sound of music failed, and the machine went into a mode called EE, which passed the video input to the vtr, to the output, and therefore program.

Well guess what..... Preview buss is what was feeding the vtr that failed... Took the fellow about 30 seconds to realize what had happened, and of course the program he was watching was in one of the 'good parts'.... !!!!

Once he realized what happened, it still took him another 30 seconds to react and 'fix' the 'programming error' he had made.....

NO ONE CALLED TO COMPLAIN!!!!

True Story!!! !
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reply to IGGY
The story made the front page. But yet once again any forum post related to the subject written about on that page seems to get missed.

»Comcast Broadcasts Porn During Super Bowl

You would think that internal content would get promoted before sending readers off-site.

Either way I appreciate those that have replied here.
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reply to IGGY
I can't post the link here, but if you google search for it, you will find it. The video is pretty hilarious when watched in the context as if you were watching the superbowl at the time. I am sure the parents who have kids that were watching at the time aren't amused, but I was.
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reply to IGGY
Is that common lately (not crediting forum discussions)? I noticed it on a recent thread that preceded a front page story. It's not like Karl (or Justin) to ignore the groundlings; some kind of executive decision?

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I think it's a matter of seeing it in the news and not seeing it in the forums. People do get credited with stories they submit that end up in frontpage articles. Forum threads do get linked in frontpage articles. But I doubt that, before each frontpage article is posted, a thorough forum search is done to see if it's already an ongoing thread.
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I suppose so; it's just that in the past it always seemed that such searches were performed, because most all the write-ups included handy links to the appropriate forum discussion(s). DSLR synergy, if you will.

No big deal though.

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reply to IGGY
This is incredible, and I wish I had come here after I heard about it.

I'm in the Tucson AZ PIMA market and was watching and recording the HD feed. I saw facebook statuses pertaining to porn being broadcast, but couldn't figure out what people were talking about (I suspected they were people catching the godaddy.com ads partway through or something).

This is just hilarious though. The timing with regards to the touchdown is just... spectacular. I can't imagine it being an accident.
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reply to IGGY
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't this happen last year as well ? One of the carriers aired porn during one of the Super Bowl commercials.

reply to IGGY
Drat! I m not in Tucson so missed it. It would surely have been better than some of the ads that were on.

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censored clip of what happened here: »www.tmz.com/2009/02/02/porn-clip···oadcast/