A friend of mine became the Chief Engineer (”el Jefe”) at a station in my town. Not long afterword, they decided to stay on the air 24 hours a day, and would fill those late hours with all sorts of old syndicated stuff and infomercials.
He noticed that the guys in master control would relieve their boredom by dialing up a satellite downlink to the Playboy Channel, and watching on the preview monitors.
He circulated a notice that the first one to accidentally punch it up on air would get the axe.
Well, you can guess what happened. Within about a week, too.
Was the talk of the town; newspaper columnists and talk radio hosts had a ball with it. One viewer complained that he and his kids were offended. (One gets the impression they watched it for a little while before switching off. Also, he never explained why his kids were up at 3am anyway.)
That’s why I said stuff like this doesn’t ‘just happen’. Someone has to be there to dial it in. Ah well. In about 10 years you probably won’t have broadcast tv anyway. It will all be net based and people will be able to watch what they want when they want. People won’t have an excuse to complain at that point. (I hope)