KENMORE, Ohio — A northeast Ohio family hoping to see choirs perform holiday music on Christmas morning instead saw adult programming on the local public access television station.

“I turn it to Channel 15 and there’s this naked lady on the screen — I mean full-frontal, get-the-hell-out-of-here pornography,” said David Umana. “When I tell about Christmas 2004, I’m betting this will be one of my best stories.”

Umana’s 15- and 17-year-old sons had left the room about 8:30 a.m. Saturday, but he and his wife, Karen, saw the porn and called Time Warner Cable to complain.

Chris Thomas, the cable company’s director of government affairs, believes the wrong tape was put in a machine set to play that morning. A church program was scheduled, he said.

“I don’t think the church group submitted that,” Thomas said.

The cable company has received several complaints about sexually explicit programming that usually airs during late night hours, Thomas said.

Akron schools provide most of the daytime programming on the station required by the cable company’s contract with Akron, but anyone can submit tapes to fill other time slots.

Time Warner cannot review the tapes before they air, it can only ask if the tapes contain profanity or nudity so the station knows when to air them, Thomas said.

City officials repeatedly have unsuccessfully tried to end pornography on the station.

The Federal Communications Commission, which penalized CBS after Janet Jackson’s breast-bearing “wardrobe malfunction” during the Super Bowl, regulates network television. The same rules don’t so strictly apply to cable.