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Playboy Porn Breaks into Disney Channel

Children watching the Disney Channel in Chile were offered a startling adults-only peek of Playboy programming this week because of a technical error, media reported Thursday. And the glimpse they caught went a long way beyond Playboy’s bunny logo romping around on a channel normally reserved for Mickey Mouse and friends.

Playboy Porn Breaks into Disney Channel

“My eldest daughter told me one of her friends said to put on channel 21 (Disney), and instead of the usual program there was the Playboy channel. Luckily my smallest one, 10 years old, was sleeping at the time,” one Chilean mother, Jacqueline Orchad, told the daily El Mercurio. Another mother said:

“My daughter showed me the TV and said ‘look, mommy’ — and I almost fell off my chair.”

The cable company responsible, VTR, said the mix-up occurred only in the northern city of Antofagasta, and only for a few minutes late Tuesday. It said the channel switch happened inadvertently while technicians were updating the system. A member of Chile’s National Television Council, Hernan Chadwick, raged: “This is unacceptable. This is a grave mistake.”

He demanded that VTR make up for the error by “giving an explanation to parents.”

It is not the first time Playboy has turned up uninvited on children-only channels.Last month, Time Warner Cable in the United States had to apologize after it put out restricted porn on children’s television for two hours in the state of North Carolina.

It’s sick how all these hackers are feeding the porn to children… cause they’ve got all this money to spend on it.

source: Playboy porn breaks into Disney channel [yahoo news]

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Playboy Accidentally Plays On Childrens TV

Time Warner Cable has apologized to the people of North Carolina after previews from the Playboy Channel were accidentally shown on a children channel.

Playboy Accidentally Plays On Childrens TV

Children and parents who are usually tuning in to get some cartoons in the morning got a surprise when a bunch of Playboy women popped up on screen for about two hours on the Kids on Demand and Kids Pre-School on Demand channels on Tuesday morning.

Time Warner issued an apology saying that this happened after an equipment glitch took place between 6:14 a.m. and 8:15 a.m., most towns just got a black screen but a few of them got the Playboy images showing up on screen.

They said “we’re very, very sorry it happened – we know parents are concerned, It took about an hour or so once we were notified of the problem to actually get it fixed. It was a technical glitch and unfortunately it hit at the worst possible time on the worst possible channels.”

Apparently TWC usually have procedures that would pick up any errors like this but because it only affected a few towns they were only made aware about this error because parents called in to complain.

I wish that when my TV company had glitches they were involved showing some free Playboy previews, usually I just end up losing all service and have to wait for about an hour on hold before I get told that they are “working on it”.

source: Playboy accidentally played out on children’s TV [BBC]

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Time Warner Cable Customers Say Bye to MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon!

If you are a Colbert Report or The Hills fan and are a Time Warner Cable customer, you may want to start looking into DirecTV.

Come January 1st, 2009 you may not be able to see them at home!

It appears Time Warner Cable customer service was unprepared for the onslaught of complaints from subscribers flooding into call centers.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that many reps were unaware of the dispute with Viacom, which began running news crawls below its programming that 19 channels would go dark on the cable system operation at 12:01 AM on January 1st.

Viacom also placed full-page advertisements in some major market newspapers today featuring protests by its media characters, including Dora the Explorer who is shown crying because she is being taken away from her fans, or SpongeBob freaking out.

Viacom is even telling viewers they can get Dora or SpongeBob back by signing onto Time Warner Cable’s competitors DirecTV or Verizon.

Meanwhile, Time Warner Cable is prepared to refund customers for the lost programming if a deal can’t be reached by New Year’s, though the amount hasn’t been determined yet.

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