CNN accidentally broadcast 30 minutes of hardcore porn last night

Although this is hilarious, it seems to be sourced to a single Twitter user. I wonder if it's actually true or just another example of fake news making it onto real news sites?

&gt; (...) after a grave error by RCN, a local cable TV provider based in New Jersey that provides CNN&#x27;s broadcasting all down the east coast.<p>&gt; Apparently, only viewers in Boston experienced the mistake on Thursday night as one viewer voiced her concerns on Twitter.<p>According to these lines from [1], it was a localized problem, and wasn&#x27;t from the CNN stream, but from the RCN replaying a wrong feed to subscribers.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;arts-entertainment&#x2F;tv&#x2F;news&#x2F;cnn-accidentally-airs-30-minutes-of-non-stop-hardcore-porn-a7439371.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.independent.co.uk&#x2F;arts-entertainment&#x2F;tv&#x2F;news&#x2F;cnn-...</a>

the person whose tweet is in the news article had to protect her* tweet because people were sending her hate mail.<p>what the hell.

I can see how Parts Unknown can be confused for a porn title.

Surprised no one has mentioned that this could have been a TiVo problem -- either an error in their programming data, or, more likely considering that only one user seems to have reported it, a malfunction in an individual TiVo unit. I&#x27;ve had a TiVo for years, and they do screw up or crash occasionally.

As far as decency goes, I think that’s a reasonable improvement over the recent presidential election coverage.

What was broadcasted exactly?

Hacker news needs to enable downvoting for articles. Fake news is here to stay.

Add TNW to the fake news list. They got it all wrong in their rush to publish.

&quot;It remains to be seen if in response to its collapsing ratings, CNN will refocus from waging war on &quot;fake media&quot;, and make airing of hard core porn during primetime TV a part of scheduled programming. Come, pardon the pun, to think of it, &quot;Deep Quote with Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper&quot; is a &quot;news&quot; show we could certainly sink our teeth into.&quot; ZH