Tennessee- In a statement issued Thursday, Comcast Area Vice President John Gauder apologized for airing what appeared to pornography on the Cartoon Network in the early morning hours of Thursday.

“We apologize for any inconvenience some of our Comcast cable TV customers in Middle Tennessee experienced Thursday as a result of some highly unusual issues,” the statement said.

“It appears that a subscription movie channel was inadvertently shown on…
… other channels which normally carry news, sports, children’s and other entertainment programming… We are taking the appropriate steps to ensure that this highly unusual incident does not happen again.”

According to Comcast, engineers thought they had the problem fixed at 12 midnight but it happened again around 4 a.m., when the cable provider decided to remove the channels from the lineup.

Comcast also apologized for the service interruption.

They said everything is now up and running and an investigation is underway.