News 4 is investigating pornographic material viewed during the Super Bowl by some Tucson area Comcast viewers.

Just after the last touchdown by the Cardinals, approximately 30 seconds of pornographic material was shown. It appears this material was only viewed by some Comcast customers.

Cardinals fan Lorraine Ferrick, caught more than her favorite team on TV last night.

"I almost wanted to turn it off, but I didn't, I thought it must be a joke," she says.

During the 4th quarter, after Larry Fitzgerald's 64 yard touchdown catch, Ferrick saw the unthinkable.

"It almost made me sick to my stomach," she says, after watching about 30 seconds of pornography, "it was a shock, why am I looking at this? I don't want young people to see this."

With viewers like Lorraine angry, both KVOA and Comcast are investigating how it happened.

News 4 General Manager Gary Nielsen explains," what we do know is that it didn't happen at KVOA, and it didn't happen to subscribers of Cox, DirecTV, or Dish, or any over the air subscribers, it only happened to Comcast subscribers."

Comcast released this statement to News 4:

"We are mortified by last evening's Super Bowl interruption and we apologize to our customers. Our initial investigation suggests this was an isolated malicious act. We are conducting a thorough investigation to determine how this happened."

While that's some relief for Lorraine, she has a message for who ever is responsible.

"I say you need to go to jail. You've done damage to young people."

News 4 also put a call into the Marana Police Department. They'll get involved once Comcast completes its investigation, to determine if criminal charges will be filed.

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Comcast Offers $10 Credit After Super Bowl Porn Blunder
Operator's Tucson System Continues to Investigate Possible 'Malicious Act'
2/2/2009 7:14:25 PM MT

Comcast is offering a $10 credit to Tucson, Ariz., subscribers "impacted" by a 30-second porn clip that interrupted the local NBC affiliate's Super Bowl XLIII broadcast Sunday.

The clip from Shorteez, a hard-core pay-per-view adult channel owned by Playboy Enterprises, appeared in the standard-definition feed of KVOA-TV on Comcast's local system in the game's fourth quarter immediately after the Arizona Cardinals scored to take a 23-20 lead with less than three minutes to go in the game. The HD version was unaffected.

The 30-second clip showed full-frontal male nudity, the Tucson Citizen reported. A second clip, which also aired during the telecast, showed about 10 seconds of end credits for Club Jenna, another Playboy-owned adult pay-per-view channel, according to the newspaper.

"We can't undo what happened, but we remain deeply sorry for the impact this situation has had on our customers," Comcast Tucson corporate affairs manager Kelle Maslyn said in a statement Monday. "To that end, we will be issuing a $10 credit to any Comcast video customer in Tucson who was impacted. While this credit won't change what happened, we hope that it will demonstrate to our customers, and to the Tucson community, how seriously we are taking this situation."

Maslyn said Comcast is "continuing with our investigation into what we believe may have been an isolated, malicious act, and will aggressively pursue all leads until we come to resolution."

Comcast customers in the Tucson area seeking the credit were directed to call (888) 315-8219.

"We are appalled this highly inappropriate material was displayed for some Comcast customers," Gary Nielsen, president and general manager of KVOA Communications, said in a statement posted on KVOA's site.

Comcast Tucson receives the KVOA feed through an arrangement with Cox Communications. Mike Dunne, Cox director of media relations for southern Arizona, said no porn was broadcast to the MSO's customers. "We have received no evidence that any inappropriate material was broadcast on any of our channels during the Super Bowl," he said in a statement Monday. "The alleged incident appears to be isolated to the Comcast territory. We will offer our support to all appropriate organizations to help them determine what happened."

Media watchdog group Parents Television Council president Tim Winter urged the companies involved to take immediate steps to ensure that "this type of indecent material does not air again during times when children are in the audience."

"These ‘accidents' seem to happen more often than they should, and if it truly was an accident, why is it always porn that's aired?" Winter said in a statement. "TV station ‘accidents' never include a rerun of the The Cosby Show.... if someone intentionally caused it, then that person or persons need to be properly dealt with."

In a similar 2007 incident, Comcast broadcast porn to subscribers in New Jersey during an episode of Disney Channel children's show Handy Manny.

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Lol If they can hack it maybe we can too

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Your right.What ever happen was no accident it was done deliberately.

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All these ppl complaining but they all watched it while it lasted. Why didn't they just change the channel. Because they liked it that's why and now they get paid money to watch porn.Not a bad deal if you ask me.

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