Pope replaced with "Girls Gone Wild" ad

[jal41]

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/new...Gone_Wild_interrupts_Good_Friday_service.html

Even though not mentioned, everyone with digital, regardless of what channel they had their box on, would have been redirected to the Girls Gone Wild ad, and their box locked up where the channel could not be changed, or the box even turned off. It this had been Nickelodeon or Disney Channel, the time 2 PM in the afternoon, and the ad an adult channel... (I think there have been incidents already involving disgruntled headend technicians doing this).

In Atlanta, Comcast uses C-SPAN as the EAS channel. I don't know channel Comcast uses in Philadelphia, but they might want to change it.

Oddly enough...only one complaint.

 

[Skynet74]

I laughed my ass off when I heard about this. Yes only one complaint. Maybe people are less uptight than they used to be. That's a good thing.

 

[Silkie]

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/new...Gone_Wild_interrupts_Good_Friday_service.html

Even though not mentioned, everyone with digital, regardless of what channel they had their box on, would have been redirected to the Girls Gone Wild ad, and their box locked up where the channel could not be changed, or the box even turned off. It this had been Nickelodeon or Disney Channel, the time 2 PM in the afternoon, and the ad an adult channel... (I think there have been incidents already involving disgruntled headend technicians doing this).

In Atlanta, Comcast uses C-SPAN as the EAS channel. I don't know channel Comcast uses in Philadelphia, but they might want to change it.

Oddly enough...only one complaint.

Maybe the only complaint came from somebody who did not know about EWTN. C-Span has complaints from all places where Comcast has been using C-Span for sports programming. The problem with Comcast is that complaints about the switch are met by some pretty arrogant little creeps in Perry Hall, MD. Comcast also knows about all the complaints against that particular call center. The whole country seems to get rerouted to Perry Hall, MD, after they put you on hold. Any other queries for assistance go to regular places, like Louisiana. Perry Hall transfers people to all the other places as long as it is not a complaint about overriding C-Span or C-Span 2. Kind of like management at a radio staton that sucks that will take care of it, unless they are busy being smart arses to dig themselves in deeper.

 

[nathannah]

On my Charter system the EAS redirect is Channel 17, which used to be the home of the TV Guide Channel before it got moved to digital irrelavancy and was replaced on 17 with WGN America. Before then it was QVC.

The timing was bad as it's the time when almost all the cable networks go to paid programming. What I wish we could find out was which network was airing this ad at the time. The article doesn't tell us this, but going by process of elimination it has to be Spike TV. They always air GGW ads around that time of evening and it's not usually on the Discovery networks, ABC Family or Lifetime. The other possibility would be Comedy Central, but they don't go to paid programming until 3am. Otherwise it has to be a Comcast local network because I can't think of another at that time that would carry GGW ads.

If it's Spike TV as a redirect, that's an incredibly serious blunder.