CINCINNATI -- Don and Terri Newbauer's daughter, Nicole, was flipping through the television channels on Saturday looking for Channel 26 in Cincinnati.

Instead, she found hardcore pornography on Adelphia Cable's public access Channel 2, which generally airs videotapes provided by individuals or community groups.

"And she says, 'You have to see Channel 2.' We turn it on and it's like -- whoa!" said Don Newbauer. "It was disgusting. It was the hardest-core stuff I've ever seen."

Newbauer said he immediately called Adelphia and asked the phone representative, "What kind of smut are you guys putting on Channel 2?"

Newbauer said the cable company's representative blamed the problem on local programming that Adelphia does not control.

"So, I started describing what was on and he says, 'I don't want to hear this disgusting stuff,'" said Newbauer. "I told him that I don't want this disgusting stuff coming in on my cable."

Terri Newbauer recorded some of what aired and then called police.

"All he told me is, 'Yes, there's hardcore porn on the television. We know about it. The telephone lines at Adelphia are blocked up and nobody can get through. We're working to get it off your television,'" she said.

Adelphia told WLWT-TV in Cincinnati that all videos aired on cable access are screened, and that Saturday's tape -- of go-kart racing -- was screened for the full amount of time it was scheduled to run.

Adelphia said screeners did not watch the rest of the tape that contained about 18 to 20 minutes of pornographic material -- all of which aired on Sunday.

An Adelphia spokesman said the cable company takes great measures to detect any problems with community access programming and apologizes to customers for the technical error.

Don Newbauer said he and his family are still upset by what they saw.

"There has to be responsibility. Somebody's got to step up to the plate and be accountable," said Don Newbauer.

"They should have immediately taken it off and not waited 25 minutes," Nicole Newbauer said.