Last night, CNN allegedly accidentally aired half an hour of hardcore pornography to viewers following a slip-up by RCN, a local cable TV provider in New Jersey.

RCN provides CNN's broadcasting in the city and although viewers were tuning in for a new episode of Anthony Bourdain's 'Parts Unknown', an American travel and food show, presumably presented by a man of the same name, the unknown parts bit of it was a lot more than viewers were expecting.

The scheduled programming was replaced with explicit material starring adult transsexual film star Riley Quinn. Again though, this has been refuted.

According to the Independent, only viewers in the city of Boston experienced the mistake on Thursday night, because one viewer voiced her concerns on Twitter. "I can't wait until [RCN] wakes up [tomorrow] & realises that hardcore porn was broadcast on [CNN] instead of [Parts Unknown] tonight," user @Solikearose wrote.

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Credit: Twitter / solikearose

An hour later, the CNN channel was taken off-air, too late for anybody to unsee what had reportedly been witnessed.

CNN and RCN have yet to offer an official response to the incident.

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