Television New Zealand has been ordered to pay $3000 in costs and criticised by the Broadcasting Standards Authority after screening footage of a female porn star.
The current affairs show Close Up had conducted an interview with Nina Hartley including images from her pornographic movies in August last year.
It had received complaints and accepted that it had breached good taste and decency standards, apologising to the complainants.
However, one couple were not satisfied and went to the authority.
The BSA says it agreed that the state broadcaster's response was insufficient as the showing of images was prolonged and sustained.
It says the images were more sexually explicit than those shown in an earlier upheld complaint against Close Up over clips from the film The Vintner's Luck.
