Mix-up results in porn movie broadcast on CHCH
CHCH Morning Live’s viewers saw more than they bargained for when Friday morning's news broadcast was overtaken by a porn movie.
CHCH Morning Live’s viewers saw more than they bargained for when Friday morning's news broadcast was overtaken by a porn movie.
As the Hamilton Spectator reports, about three minutes of hard core sex scenes were aired before the CHCH stopped broadcasting.
According to tweets from CHCH, the channel was not hacked, as some early feedback from viewers suggested on Twitter. Instead, the tweets said said the channel’s broadcast was compromised by a mistake outside of its control.
CHCH extends sincere apologies to those viewers who were subjected to the material that took over our signal at 9:33 this morning.
— Morning Live (@morninglive) April 20, 2012
[node:ad]The content did not originate at CHCH but was the result a switching error at one of the cable companies that distributes our signal.
— Morning Live (@morninglive) April 20, 2012
Channel Zero, the broadcasting company which owns CH, also owns two national adult entertainment television channels. That said, CH news director Mike Katryzc told The Spec that the problem “originated at a cable company outside of CH and outside of Channel Zero.”
The reaction on Twitter included a little play-on-words hashtag, #chporninglive. Here are a few more samples of the different reactions on social media:
Witnessed the CHCH porn. Was quite shocking to be waiting for the weather then be watching gay porn!! #CHCHPORN #hamont
— Shannon Blinkhorn (@medicthatcooks) April 20, 2012
@YourAnonNews did you guys just hit CHCH news? They just played gay porn briefly then went to a blank screen. Epic breakfast lol
— Jimmy Singh (@jsukhija) April 20, 2012
I was watching porn this morning when suddenly the news came on. I was very offended. #chch
— Corey Saldarelli (@corsal) April 20, 2012
Gay porn broadcast on Hamilton's CHCH for three minutes. Imagine seeing THAT at Starbucks…
— Brent P. Lanthier (@BrentLanthier) April 20, 2012
