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ah you silly catholics, mind you if church was like this, I would have paid more attention lol.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090411/K041104AU.html
Philadelphia cable glitch switches religious program to racy ad
Published: Saturday, April 11, 2009 | 1:57 PM ET
Canadian Press NewsItem/NewsComponent/NewsLines/ByLine
PHILADELPHIA - 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. <- this part is my favourite in the whole article.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090411/K041104AU.html
Philadelphia cable glitch switches religious program to racy ad
Published: Saturday, April 11, 2009 | 1:57 PM ET
Canadian Press NewsItem/NewsComponent/NewsLines/ByLine
PHILADELPHIA - 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. <- this part is my favourite in the whole article.
One little old lady called, I guarantee it. The rest were curiously way more entertained than most Sundays.
