Porn During the Super Bowl- Now That's Comcastic!

LOL- I am usually quite proud to say I work for Comcast. Its a strong, successful company with excellent benefits. Usually the biggest excitement at the office is the unannounced fire alarm testing or management treating us to donuts or pizza. But today the office was all a twitter with conversation about what happened in Tucson, Arizona. Twitter about something that happened during the Super Bowl that does not put Comcast in such a positive light in Tucson, Arizona for about 80,000 Comcast customers.

Pornographic Super Bowl Interruption; Comcast responds

Posted: Feb 1, 2009 11:38 PM

Updated: Feb 2, 2009 06:38 PM

TUCSON, AZ - KVOA-TV is investigating pornographic material viewed during the Super Bowl by some Tucson area Comcast viewers. Just after the last touchdown by the Cardinals, approximately 30 seconds of pornographic material was shown. It appears this material was only viewed by some Comcast customers. It sparked a flurry of angry phone calls and e-mails to our newsroom.

"We are appalled this highly inappropriate material was displayed for some Comcast customers," states Gary Nielsen, President and General Manager of KVOA Communications Inc.

Nielsen also states, "Our internal investigation shows the signal left KVOA with no interruptions or inappropriate material. Cox cable, satellite providers, Directv, Dish and our over-the-air viewers received the clean feed. KVOA provides Cox with a feed via a fiber line and Cox sends a subsequent feed of our signal through a fiber line to Comcast."

Comcast has released a new statement today:

"We are mortified by last evening's Super Bowl interruption and we apologize to our customers. Our initial investigation suggests this was an isolated malicious act. We are conducting a thorough investigation to determine how this happened," said Kelle Maslyn, Comcast Corporate Affairs Manager.

"We are appalled by last evening's Super Bowl interruption. The Super Bowl is a family-viewing event, and last night was even more special here in Arizona as we were all cheering for the Cardinals," says a statement by Kelle Masyln, Comcast Coporate Affairs Manager.

The statement goes on to say, "We can't undo what happened, but we remain deeply sorry for the impact this situation has had on our customers. To that end, we will be issuing a $10 credit to any Comcast video customer in Tucson who was impacted. While this credit won't change what happened, we hope that it will demonstrate to our customers, and to the Tucson community, how seriously we are taking this situation. To get this credit, impacted customers should call 888-315-8219. We are continuing with our investigation into what we believe may have been an isolated, malicious act, and will aggressively pursue all leads until we come to resolution."

When we contacted Cox last night, we received this statement:

"We have received no evidence that any inappropriate material was broadcast on any of our channels during the Super Bowl. The alleged incident appears to be isolated to the Comcast territory. We will offer our support to all appropriate organizations to help them determine what happened," says Mike Dunne, Cox Director of Media Relations.

KVOA is dismayed and disappointed that some Comcast customers and their families were subjected to this material.

Nielsen says, "KVOA supports the Comcast effort to find out what occured. We ask Comcast to provide a full documentation for our viewers who are owed an explanation."

I personally think it was foul play. Working for Comcast, you tend to hear things. I personally don't know of anyone capable of pulling a memorable act such as this, but I do know that is can be done. Come on, does anyone REALLY think this was an accident. The Arizona Cardinals. The Super Bowl,one of the if not THEE highest watched telecast. Tucson, Arizona the only one affected. Someone wanted to make a memorable joke, bigger than "Nipplegate"- the Janet Jackson and Justin Timberland "wardrobe malfunction" (which I also think was planned considering since the last lyric before it happened was 'I am gonna have you naked by the end of this song'). I don't know how memorable it really will be since it only affected one area, but for the folks at Tucson, Arizona, football will never be the same!