Swedish state broadcaster SVT is in hot water after accidently broadcasting some
sizzling Czech action as a backdrop to Saturday's midnight news, rather
than the normal "output of other news channels", the BBC reports. The "highly embarrassing and unfortunate" blunder occured on one of the background
monitors, and only for 30 seconds before a panic-striken producer ran
and switched channels, Cue someone getting fired.The explanation for the outrage is simple: workers had changed
channels on a monitor which normally "shows the output of other news
channels" to watch a "sports event" on Canal Plus. They subsequently
forgot to change it back, and after midnight viewers were treated to
another kind of sports event when the channel switched to XXX content.
Having worked in MCR's for the first part of my TV career I know how easy this can happen.