Porn Interrupts Arizona Super Bowl Broadcast

from Arizona Daily Star

A short clip of a pornographic movie cut into a Comcast broadcast of the Super Bowl in homes in and around Tucson.

Officials at Comcast confirmed that its signal was interrupted during the Super Bowl, but the company is still working to figure out how porn broke into its cable feed.

Engineers at Comcast will be working throughout the night to determine what happened, said Kelle Maslyn, a Comcast spokeswoman.

The Star newsroom erupted with calls from irate viewers shortly after 7:30 p.m. who said that the porn cut into the broadcast just after Cardinals player Larry Fitzgerald scored a touchdown on a pass from Kurt Warner to give the Cardinals the lead with less than two minutes in the game.

Callers said that a clip showing a woman unzipping a man's pants broke into the standard definition feed reaching analog TV sets. Comcast's high definition feed was not affected, and Maslyn did not know how many homes were affected.

[Apparently there was even more scoring than we realized]