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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-05 11:08 AM
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Once-Conservative Adelphia Adds Hard Core Porn to Cable
ADELPHIA COMMUNICATIONS CORP

THE NATION

CABLE TELEVISION

PORNOGRAPHY

ADELPHIA COMMUNICATIONS CORP CABLE TELEVISION PORN
By Sallie Hofmeister, Times Staff Writer
<snip>
Adelphia Communications Corp. has quietly become the nation's only leading cable operator to offer the most explicit category of hard-core porn. Come Friday, triple-X-rated programming will be available on cable for the first time in a major media market: Southern California.

"People want it, so we are trying to provide it," Adelphia spokeswoman Erica Stull said. "The more Xs, the more popular."
<snip>
The move is a radical departure for Adelphia, the largest cable provider in Southern California and the nation's fifth biggest. Five years ago, Adelphia stirred a local controversy by dropping Spice — a popular soft-porn channel — from newly acquired cable systems here because Adelphia founder John Rigas considered X-rated programming immoral.

Today, the 80-year-old Rigas and one of his sons are facing prison terms after being convicted last summer for looting the company and engaging in fraudulent accounting.
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Oh Yeah, family values..... fuck you
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-05 11:10 AM
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1. just goes to show that money is more important
than anything else

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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-05 11:18 AM
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2. Gotta pay those legal bills somehow
especially since the stockholders found out about all the money that went to these folks . . .
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