Porn Cuts Into TV Sports Broadcast In New Zealand

New Zealand TV network Sky has apologised for a 'technical glitch' which caused pornography to screen on thousands of televisions over the weekend.

A 'Grassroots Rugby' program that was supposed to be showing its usual fare of hardnosed rugby quickly turned into another kind of hard and fast action when the broadcast was replaced with a feed from an adult-only network. Viewers in Auckland and Northland found themselves watching full-on adult action at which airs at 3 PM for nearly four minutes of the hour-long sports show.



One such viewer, Mike Steenson, told the

'New Zealand Herald' that he was watching the rugby show with his 3-year-old son when all of a sudden porn rolled across his screen: "I'm not sure how many people were watching but it's not something you expect to come on, on a Sunday. You can't make mistakes like that." Another dad explained his eight-year-old son's innocence had "been ruined."

Tony O'Brien, Sky's director of communications, said a "technical fault in the system which manages the distribution of programmes" was the cause of the interruption, adding that steps had been taken to ensure that it doesn't happen again.