A missing letter results in embarrassing mistake for Memphis station

By NewscastStudio May 3, 2016

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A missing letter in a Memphis station’s lower third drastically altered its meaning.

WMC-TV’s banner should have read “Peeping Tom” but a single letter was dropped, making it read “Peeing Tom.”

That missing letter? “P.”

Oh, the irony.

H/T FTVLive and Eric