A report from the Guardian:
A cable television company has apologised to customers after accidentally broadcasting a pornography channel instead of the scheduled BBC programmes.
Smallworld viewers in Scotland, who had been watching Life on Mars, were waiting for the Ten O'Clock News but were shocked to see sexually explicit images on their screens, while BBC2 viewers were confronted with X-rated footage instead of Jeremy Paxman and Newsnight.
The Ayrshire-based cable firm mistakenly aired the pornographic content, from adult channel Climax 3, to customers for two hours until the mix-up was discovered at midnight and the plug pulled on the offending material.
Climax 3, a subscription channel that is part of the Playboy empire, normally costs £3 a night for three channels, but was broadcast free last Tuesday night. Group sex scenes, lesbian romps, and stripteases were among the clips shown.
A spokesman for Smallworld, formerly WightCable, said: "We are in the process of upgrading our systems in preparation for our relaunch later this month and have come up against several problems. When the free to view time came to an end at 10pm, some unsuitable content was broadcast."
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