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(January 7, 2003) ? WEBSTER ? Television viewers in Webster were startled Monday night when a community access show about the U.S. Army was interrupted by roughly 20 minutes of explicit gay pornography.
Town officials were still scratching their heads Tuesday morning over what happened.
Mike Auger, who oversees cable television operations for town government, said he could find no evidence of the gay-themed video on the computer system that digitally stores programming for the station and manages what goes on the air.
?How it got through and on the air, I don?t know,? Auger said. ?That?s what we?re investigating now.?
The unscheduled programming found its way onto the air on Webster Cable Access 12 between 8 and 9 p.m., apparently during the middle of Army Newswatch, a program produced by the U.S. Army.
By the time Auger was able to get to the office last night, the pornography was off the air. Supervisor Cathryn Thomas said residents have told her the station apparently reverted back to Army Newswatch.
Callers to the Brother Wease morning show on WCMF-FM said that the gay porn program seemed to have a German military theme to it involving an older officer and younger men.
Auger openly wondered if something could have happened elsewhere, perhaps at the offices of Time Warner, to cause the problem. He added that he just didn?t know.
But Brian Wirth, vice president of government affairs for Time-Warner Communications, said the Town of Webster controls the public access channel.
?It is operated and managed by the Town of Webster,? Wirth said of the station. ?The only thing that we provide is the channel and a space for the studio.?
Wirth added that since the public access channel is not Internet-based, there is no way anyone could?ve hacked into the system.
?Someone would have to physically put something like (the gay porn segment) into the system,? Wirth said.
This isn?t the first time unwanted programming has aired in Webster and other communities -- although rarely is it so startling.
In the days of videotape, Auger said an HBO movie or a football game would occasionally make its way onto the air because it was accidentally left on a tape.
But Auger said the town?s conversion to an all-digital system seemed to have cut down on such problems.
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(January 7, 2003) ? WEBSTER ? Television viewers in Webster were startled Monday night when a community access show about the U.S. Army was interrupted by roughly 20 minutes of explicit gay pornography.
Town officials were still scratching their heads Tuesday morning over what happened.
Mike Auger, who oversees cable television operations for town government, said he could find no evidence of the gay-themed video on the computer system that digitally stores programming for the station and manages what goes on the air.
?How it got through and on the air, I don?t know,? Auger said. ?That?s what we?re investigating now.?
The unscheduled programming found its way onto the air on Webster Cable Access 12 between 8 and 9 p.m., apparently during the middle of Army Newswatch, a program produced by the U.S. Army.
By the time Auger was able to get to the office last night, the pornography was off the air. Supervisor Cathryn Thomas said residents have told her the station apparently reverted back to Army Newswatch.
Callers to the Brother Wease morning show on WCMF-FM said that the gay porn program seemed to have a German military theme to it involving an older officer and younger men.
Auger openly wondered if something could have happened elsewhere, perhaps at the offices of Time Warner, to cause the problem. He added that he just didn?t know.
But Brian Wirth, vice president of government affairs for Time-Warner Communications, said the Town of Webster controls the public access channel.
?It is operated and managed by the Town of Webster,? Wirth said of the station. ?The only thing that we provide is the channel and a space for the studio.?
Wirth added that since the public access channel is not Internet-based, there is no way anyone could?ve hacked into the system.
?Someone would have to physically put something like (the gay porn segment) into the system,? Wirth said.
This isn?t the first time unwanted programming has aired in Webster and other communities -- although rarely is it so startling.
In the days of videotape, Auger said an HBO movie or a football game would occasionally make its way onto the air because it was accidentally left on a tape.
But Auger said the town?s conversion to an all-digital system seemed to have cut down on such problems.
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