TV station worker arrested over pornographic broadcast

The local procuratorate in a county in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality approved the arrest of a TV station worker who was suspected of involvement in the local TV station's broadcasting of several minutes of pornographic video clips.

Pornographic video clips appeared on a television channel run by the station of the Youyang Tujia and Miao autonomous county in Chongqing on the evening of July 7. The local authorities suspended the TV channel after the incident and pledged to conduct a thorough investigation.

The investigation shows that a worker at the station, surnamed Yang, was suspected of altering the programming of the TV channel and replaced it with pornographic content, according to a statement from the local government information office.

Yang had a dispute with the management of the TV station and altered the TV channel programming deliberately, according to the statement.

Yang was arrested for spreading pornographic content, according to the local procuratorate.