New York Post

IT’S THE NIGHTLY ‘NUDES’

- By YARON STEINBUCH ysteinbuch@nypost.com

It was cloudy with a chance of some booty on a Washington state TV station — whose weather forecast was accompanie­d by a raunchy porn video during an evening newscast.

Folks at CBS affiliate KREM 2 in Spokane were left red-faced over the footage, which appeared to show a woman’s backside behind meteorolog­ist Michelle Boss as she delivered the weather report Sunday evening (pictured), Adweek reported.

Neither Boss nor anchor Cody Proctor reacted to the clip, which aired for about 13 seconds, before the outlet cut to weather maps.

The temperatur­e-raising incident was enough to get the Spokane Police Department’s Special Victims Unit involved to probe possible criminalit­y, spokeswoma­n Julie Humphreys told the Spokesman-Review.

“The incident generated numerous calls from concerned citizens in the city and county. At the time of this release, the investigat­ion is ongoing and no culpabilit­y of any kind has been determined,” police said in a statement.

A vice president at KREM’s parent company said the station was appalled by the incident.

“We apologized to our viewers last night during our 11 p.m. newscast. Those of us here at KREM 2 want to apologize for something that happened in our 6 p.m. newscast tonight,” said Anne Bentley, the chief communicat­ions officer at TEGNA.

“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,” she told the newspaper in an e-mail.

She declined to answer questions about the clip.

The Federal Communicat­ions Commission may fine the station for the X-rated content, according to the Spokesman-Review, which reported that a station in Roanoke, Va., experience­d a similar incident in 2012.

That outlet violated federal law by airing “indecent programmin­g from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience,” the FCC ruled, according to the Roanoke Times.

It was ultimately fined $325,000, the costliest penalty ever at the time for a single indecent broadcast, according to the report.

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