TV technician suspended over porn blunder

A television technician in French Polynesia has been suspended after he accidentally broadcast part of a pornographic movie shortly after a regular religious programme, Australian media reported.

The mix-up occurred earlier this month on the Tahiti Nui television network, when three minutes of the adult movie, including 52 seconds of explicit pornography, went to air during the mid-afternoon.

"It is funny, yes, but not really to us," station general director Haupert Ives told Australian Associated Press.

The technician was taping a satellite feed from Paris when he switched channels to look at an adult program, not noticing he had started to tape the wrong program, Ives said.

The technician was suspended without pay for a week.

- Reuters