CHCH frantically tried to cut gay porn movie that overtook news broadcast this AM - #CHPorningLive -
CHCH television says a cable company repair problem caused the sudden appearance of a hard core porn movie during its Friday morning newscast.
The station apologized to viewers and promised to investigate as soon as it returned to air.
News director Mike Katrycz said the station confirmed within the hour “there was a cable cut at a cable company somewhere (Thursday) night) and somewhere in the repair of it put in some alternative programming which wasn’t ours.”
“It didn’t originate with us “
“We are apologizing to our viewers. We hope they understand it was beyond our control.”
Katrycz said such a thing has never happened before in his 30 years experience.
Katrycz said he believes the station ultimately aired around a minute of “hardcore pornography.”
“But as I say, it seemed like an eternity,” he said.
Katrycz said he noticed the issue right away and frantically called the network’s master control to try to fix it. But since the problem originated elsewhere, they weren’t able to immediately pull the material off the air.
“It was out of our hands,” he said.
He wasn’t sure if viewers had been calling in droves to complain, but he “wouldn’t be a bit surprised.”
“We’re very disturbed,” he said, adding that the station was sorry, even if the issue wasn’t its fault.
“That still doesn’t mitigate the impact on our viewers, those who saw it, and for that we apologize.”
Some of those viewers seemed to take the blunder in stride, taking to Twitter to poke fun at the mistake using the hashtag “#CHPorningLive.”
“Just eating some pancakes this morning watching #CHCH ... I no longer like pancakes or the news,” wrote Twitter user @derek1913.
Others weren’t quite so amused.
One woman, who said she was angry, tweeted that it was lucky no small children were in the room when the pornography came on.
Viewers of the News Now broadcast were confronted with hard core sex scenes at 9:30 a.m. for several minutes before the channel went dark and stopped broadcasting.
When regular programming resumed several minutes later, CHCH apologized on air for what it said was a problem that originated outside of CH and outside its owners, Channel Zero, which operates several adult movie services.
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http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/708898--update-chch-frantically-tried-to-cut-porn-movie-that-overtook-news-broadcast
CHCH television says a cable company repair problem caused the sudden appearance of a hard core porn movie during its Friday morning newscast.
The station apologized to viewers and promised to investigate as soon as it returned to air.
News director Mike Katrycz said the station confirmed within the hour “there was a cable cut at a cable company somewhere (Thursday) night) and somewhere in the repair of it put in some alternative programming which wasn’t ours.”
“It didn’t originate with us “
“We are apologizing to our viewers. We hope they understand it was beyond our control.”
Katrycz said such a thing has never happened before in his 30 years experience.
Katrycz said he believes the station ultimately aired around a minute of “hardcore pornography.”
“But as I say, it seemed like an eternity,” he said.
Katrycz said he noticed the issue right away and frantically called the network’s master control to try to fix it. But since the problem originated elsewhere, they weren’t able to immediately pull the material off the air.
“It was out of our hands,” he said.
He wasn’t sure if viewers had been calling in droves to complain, but he “wouldn’t be a bit surprised.”
“We’re very disturbed,” he said, adding that the station was sorry, even if the issue wasn’t its fault.
“That still doesn’t mitigate the impact on our viewers, those who saw it, and for that we apologize.”
Some of those viewers seemed to take the blunder in stride, taking to Twitter to poke fun at the mistake using the hashtag “#CHPorningLive.”
“Just eating some pancakes this morning watching #CHCH ... I no longer like pancakes or the news,” wrote Twitter user @derek1913.
Others weren’t quite so amused.
One woman, who said she was angry, tweeted that it was lucky no small children were in the room when the pornography came on.
Viewers of the News Now broadcast were confronted with hard core sex scenes at 9:30 a.m. for several minutes before the channel went dark and stopped broadcasting.
When regular programming resumed several minutes later, CHCH apologized on air for what it said was a problem that originated outside of CH and outside its owners, Channel Zero, which operates several adult movie services.
Read more -
http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/708898--update-chch-frantically-tried-to-cut-porn-movie-that-overtook-news-broadcast
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