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Time Warner airs porn on kids’ channel, says sorry

Time Warner Cable has apologised to its viewers in North Carolina, USA, after a “technical” glitch caused the Playboy Channel to be screened on two children’s channels.

Updated on: Mar 20, 2010, 01:19:12 IST
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Time Warner Cable has apologised to its viewers in North Carolina, USA, after a “technical” glitch caused the Playboy Channel to be screened on two children’s channels.

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“We’re very, very sorry it happened,” a spokesman told local news station WRAL. “It was a technical malfunction that caused the wrong previews to be shown on our kids’ on-demand channels. Unfortunately it hit at the worst possible time on the worst possible channels.”

The mix-up occurred on Tuesday morning between 6 am and 8 am, when the screens of Kids on Demand and Kids Preschool on Demand showed a menu of children’s programming along with explicit streaming preview footage of nude women.

 
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