Sleazy listening: Jazz FM guilty of airing ‘pornographic content’

THE broadcasting code was breached when “pornographic content” was accidentaly played by Jazz FM, Ofcom said today.

The Funky Sensation show on the channel contained swearing and “clearly audible sounds of sexual activity” for around five minutes

A report from the regulator said a member of station staff “opened a personal email on the studio computer and accessed a weblink containing pornographic content; but by mistake left the sound fader linked to this computer open on the broadcast console. This resulted in the broadcast of the audio of the pornographic content.”

Three listeners complained to Ofcom after the content was broadcastduring the pre-recorded show on 18 February.

A station engineer pulled the plug on the feed after around five minutes.

The station issued an apology on its website and on social networks shortly afterwards and during the same show a week later.

It told the watchdog that “the individual who inadvertently caused the material to be broadcast has now left Jazz FM”.

Ofcom concluded the station had breached the rules on generally accepted standards.