I hope you and yours are enjoying a wonderful Easter weekend. My understanding is that the citizens of Philadelphia got more good cheer than they planned on Good Friday courtesy of their local cable company. As the Associated Press reported:
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia cable network's early morning broadcast of Good Friday Mass at the Vatican abruptly changed to something wildly different — a 30-second "Girls Gone Wild" ad.
Comcast spokesman Jeff Alexander says the 2 a.m. Friday programming glitch was due to a required test of the Emergency Alert System. He says such tests are usually done in the overnight hours.
The test automatically tunes viewers to a preselected channel that would provide information in the event of an emergency. But during tests, the channel airs regular programming, which in this case included a paid advertisement for the racy videos.
Alexander says the problem affected the network's entire local area, but only one person called to complain.
I think I am more surprised that someone was up and watching the mass at 2:00am then I am that they bothered to grab the phone and complain.Who knows? Maybe there will be a spike in babies born to Catholic couples nine months from now who like to stay up pass midnight without drinking insane amounts of alcohol.....
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