Porn Broadcast on Cincinnati Public Access Channel

from WDIV Detroit TV 4

Don and Terri Newbauer's daughter, Nicole, was flipping through the television channels on Saturday looking for Channel 26 in Cincinnati.

Instead, she found hardcore pornography on Adelphia Cable's public access Channel 2, which generally airs videotapes provided by individuals or community groups.

Newbauer said he immediately called Adelphia and asked the phone representative, "What kind of smut are you guys putting on Channel 2?"

Newbauer said the cable company's representative blamed the problem on local programming that Adelphia does not control.
On Adelphia, all videos aired on cable access are screened, and that Saturday's tape -- of go-kart racing -- was screened for the full amount of time it was scheduled to run.

Adelphia said screeners did not watch the rest of the tape that contained about 18 to 20 minutes of pornographic material -- all of which aired on Sunday.