Adelphia Pulls Plug On Hard-Core Cable Porn

[matcom]

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LOS ANGELES -- Adelphia is dropping hard-core pornography from its channel lineup in Southern California.

Pressure from anti-porn activists has prompted the cable television company to pull the service less than one month after it started.

The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that the nation's fifth-largest cable provider also was worried the X-Rated pay-per-view service could jeopardize its pending sale.

Time Warner and Comcast have submitted a joint bid for Adelphia, and the Times said the companies have expressed concerns about the adult programming.

Adelphia has struggled for years with whether to offer hard-core films.

Five years ago the company dropped the soft-core porn channel "Spice" from cable systems in Southern California because company founder John Rigas considered such programming immoral.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4231769/detail.html

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

1. NOOO!!! my dreams and hopes are dashed...

wait, I'm not even in california...d'oh

[underpants]

2. Gee what happened to "LET THE MARKET DECIDE"?

Oh yeah that's right that just covers susidies.

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. gimmie a list of these "anti-porn" activists

gun

[mongo]

6. Well you asked.

Here are the big ones. AKA my nemisis.

Morality in Media http://www.moralityinmedia.org/

Citizens for Community Values http://www.ccv.org/

Concerned Women for America http://www.cwfa.org/

Obscenity Crimes.org http://www.obscenitycrimes.org/

Focus on the Family http://www.family.org/

[7th_Sephiroth]

7. C.O.W. (concerned women)

i have a plan for them, it involves getting them laid so they leave innocenr people alone

Focus on the family has a suprising ammount of infighting, i COULD destablize them

Morality in media i have a picture of thier head with a transexual prostitute

the rest are probably as scummy

[zbdent]

4. Funny what the skimmer considers "immoral"

(can't come up with the terminology at this time to describe a person who takes a portion for themselves illegaly - and it's a F-cking easy term!)

[Swede]

5. You can chop a girls head off,but you can't fuck her.

Hypocracy in action.