Good Friday gone wild

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Philadelphia cable network's early morning broadcast of a Good Friday service 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 find it really difficult to believe only one person called to complain. I happen to know what happens at a television station when something goes wrong on the air. The phone rings. And it rings and it rings. Turns out there are a lot of people out there who watch the US Open, and they really don't like it when the severe weather crawl covers up the scoreboard. Or so I'm told.