Local Weather Report Accidentally Broadcasts Porn Instead

A local news station has apologized after pornography was accidentally broadcast during an evening newscast.

KREM, a local news station in Spokane, Washington aired a pornographic clip during its Sunday broadcast at 6 p.m. at the weekend.

Meteorologist Michelle Boss was giving a weather update on the BCS affiliated station when the clip was shown over her right shoulder.

The explicit clip aired for around 13 seconds and appeared to show a woman's backside.

Neither Boss nor her co-anchor on the report, Cody Proctor, reacted to the clip before the screen cut to more weather footage.

Adweek reports that KREM apologized for the incident later that evening on its 11 p.m. broadcast.

"Those of us here at KREM 2 want to apologize for something that happened in our 6 p.m. newscast tonight," the station said.

"An inappropriate video aired in the first part of the show. We are diligently working to make sure something like this doesn't happen again."

The Spokane Police Department has confirmed that it is investigating the incident and confirmed the clip generated numerous calls from concerned citizens in the city and county.

"The Spokane Police Department Special Victims Unit responded to a local news outlet Sunday evening after a disturbing image/video appeared on the screens of viewers during the station's weather report," the department said in a press release.

"Around 6:30 PM on Sunday SPD began to receive calls regarding what was described as a pornographic or explicit image appearing during a television weather forecast. It was a short video segment, generally described as a small portion of the screen, showing a separate image from the newscast of what appeared to be a possibly pornographic or explicit image.

"Estimates were the image/video lasted about 10 seconds."

The Spokane Police Department's Special Victims Unit (SVU) and Technical Assistance Response Unit (TARU) confirmed they are working with the station to conduct an investigation as to how the video appeared on a newscast and where it came from.

"At the time of this release, the investigation is ongoing and no culpability of any kind has been determined," police said.

Newsweek has contacted the Spokane Police Department for further comment.

Daniel Walters, a local reporter for the Inlander, shared a blurred clip of the incident on Twitter and confirmed that police are investigating.

"It's a very strange clip -- so strange I thought it might have been a hoax when I first saw it. Nobody on screen seems to react, and it takes shockingly long before they cut away," Walters tweeted.