Glitch Lets Kids See Playboy Channel

Time Warner snafu gives North Carolina youths previews
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 17, 2010 12:32 PM CDT
Glitch Lets Kids See Playboy Channel
Some kids got more than they bargained for while watching TV yesterday morning.   (Shutter Stock)

Whoops! Kids watching cartoons yesterday morning may have been shocked by glimpses of something not exactly G-rated: the Playboy channel. A two-hour equipment failure allowed previews for the X-rated channel to run in the corner of two kid-specific Time Warner channels in parts of North Carolina, the News & Observer reports. "We've taken calls from concerned parents, and we understand that they are concerned,” says an exec. “We're concerned, too.”
(More Playboy stories.)

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