Condom ad airs on Nickelodeon | Dallas Morning News

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Condom ad airs on Nickelodeon
Comcast blames human error for spot running during 'Rugrats'

11:59 PM CST on Friday, February 20, 2004
By JEANNE SPREIER / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News

Think of it as a car entering the wrong on-ramp to an interstate.

But in this case, the "trafficking error" aired a condom commercial during an after-school Nickelodeon show in a small portion of Comcast cable's Dallas service area.

Because of human error, the condom ad appeared on the kids' network at 3:51 p.m. Tuesday instead of on another network, said Biff Niven, vice president and general manager of Comcast Spotlight.

The advertising and sales division of Comcast is "taking additional measures to make sure it doesn't happen again," with an extra person checking the ad schedule, he said.

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[bluestateguy]

1. OK, fine this should not have happened.

Apologize and make sure it does not happen again. Let's please not have congressional hearings and a national campaign against Nick. It's not necessary. Some of these same fundamentalistwackos are short on outrage when soldiers are "accidently" killed in "friendly fire" incidents.

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2. Yep that goes right

with erectile dysfunction at the super bowl.