# I wish they had t.v. like that when I was a kid

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 17, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-had-t-v-like-that-when-i-was-a-kid/396351 "2007-03-17T17:20:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-had-t-v-like-that-when-i-was-a-kid/396351/1 "2007-03-17T17:20:39Z")

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Apparently a station in Arizona replaced part of the news broadcast with _HARDCORE PORN_. I wonder how that happened…

[Link](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11497287/)

Slee

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-had-t-v-like-that-when-i-was-a-kid/396351/2 "2007-03-17T17:33:16Z")

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Might it be that the station wanted to know if anybody was watching?

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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2007, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-had-t-v-like-that-when-i-was-a-kid/396351/3 "2007-03-18T14:57:00Z")

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[QUOTE=sleestak]  
…I wonder how that happened…  
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The studio or transmission station is full of videoplayback machines & screens. Not too hard to imagine a bored worker bringing in a little entertainment to watch on an unused player & screen. Followed by somebody either accidentally or “accidentally” linking the entertainment output to the over-the-air transmission input.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-had-t-v-like-that-when-i-was-a-kid/396351/4 "2007-03-19T00:18:31Z")

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Damn! Why doesn’t somebody here in Tucson do that?

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-had-t-v-like-that-when-i-was-a-kid/396351/5 "2007-03-19T00:42:43Z")

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That’s got to cost some money in FCC fines.

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wish-they-had-t-v-like-that-when-i-was-a-kid/396351/6 "2007-03-19T02:07:26Z")

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Did somebody also get news in their porn?