Sex, not sax: Jazz station plays porn

Jazz fans know all the jokes about how their music is hard for the average person to relate to. But surely it's easily distinguishable from, oh, the heavy breathing and panting of a porn movie, isn't it?

For whatever reason, a British digital jazz radio station on Saturday managed to play five minutes of the panting and moaning that accompanied a gay porn movie at the same time as it was broadcasting its normal programming.

According to European gay news site Pink News, the London-based station issued an apology saying "Unfortunately we had an unauthorized access to the live feed this evening which resulted in a highly regrettable incident."

The sound could be heard by all those listening to Jazz FM on Saturday night. Pink News reports that "a broadcast assistant was watching pornography while the recorded show was being broadcast and that they accidentally transmitted the audio of the porn to the nation because their microphone was erroneously active.

There's no confirmation of that from the station, but that explanation makes sense, since the film's soundtrack was heard over both music and advertisements. A spokesman for a British broadcasting regulator was reportedly investigating whether the station would be fined or lose its license, though Pink News reports that penalty is "highly unlikely."