US news channel apologizes for playing porn during weather report

A Washington-based news channel is apologizing after accidentally airing a pornographic clip during the weather forecast on the 6 p.m. newscast on Sunday. While CBS affiliate KREM’s meteorologist, Michelle Boss, delivered the weather report, graphic video of a woman played on a screen behind her.

The clip was shown for about 13 seconds before the news show cut to a weather map.

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“Around 6:30 PM on Sunday SPD began to receive calls regarding what was described as a pornographic or explicit image appearing during a television weather forecast. It was a short video segment, generally described as a small portion of the screen, showing a separate image from the newscast of what appeared to be a possibly pornographic or explicit image. Estimates were the image/video lasted about 10 seconds.”

“The department’s Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU) and Special Victims Unit (SVU) are investigating the cause of the explicit broadcast and where it came from,” a statement by the Spokane City Police Department read. It further added that the channel was cooperating with the investigation.

The broadcast of the clip led to the department receiving calls from many citizens, it further read.

As per the Daily Mail, the channel issued an apology at 11 PM the same day and said that they were “diligently working to make sure something like this doesn’t happen again.”

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In 2016, CNN’s Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown – a travel show – broadcasted pornographic content for about 30 minutes. In July 2012, WDBJ was fined $325,000 by the Federal Communications Agency for “sexually explicit clip of an adult film website” during an evening news report.

“At the time of this release, the investigation is ongoing and no culpability of any kind has been determined,” police said.