AUCKLAND — Ever have one of those days when you wish you’d just stayed in bed? A technician at a French Polynesian television network had one of them in early March when he accidentally aired part of an adult movie he intended to view in private.About three minutes of the unnamed porn video made it onto the air at about 2:00 pm, 20 minutes after a religious program had ended. According to station management, about 52 seconds of the material was explicit.
“It is funny, yes, but not really to us,” TNTV General Director Haupert Ives told the Australian Associated Press.
According to Ives, the technician was engaged in taping a program from a Paris satellite feed for later airing when he decided to view adult entertainment on another channel.
“He didn’t see that he taped not the program that came in by satellite, but the channel he was looking at,” Ives said. “His second error was that he didn’t verify the [integrity of the] program [he taped]. Normally you tape the program, and afterwards it is verified.”
The technician was suspended without pay for one week.
The March 3rd incident sparked about a dozen angry calls to the Tahiti Nui television network, according to the AAP.
