Children here got more than they bargained for when they tuned into ‘Handy Manny’ on the Disney Channel sometime in 2007. It led to cable giant Comcast investigating how hardcore pornography was broadcast during a popular cartoon program.
Comcast spokesman Fred DeAndrea confirmed the programming error occurred around 9:30 a.m. on the calamitous day. He described it as an ‘isolated issue in a local New Jersey facility’. Here’s what he said:
“We automatically detected the issue and it was corrected promptly. We apologize to any customer who experienced an issue yesterday morning,” admitted DeAndrea, who said the mistake was made by his company, not Disney. He declined, however, to provide the duration of the pornography broadcast, how many homes it reached, how the mistake happened and whether anyone will be disciplined for the X-rated error. But guess that was all inconsequential given that the damage had already been done.
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