Porn in "family-friendly" news

I'd love to know the back-story to this. Did the unnamed station employee think he was doing some kind of Running Man "wake-up-the-masses" thing? I'd also love to know just how "hard" the supposedly hard-core porn was. Despite the growing saturation of long super-hard-core Internet video porn - and the concommittant hardening of ordinary retail porn - mainstream TV has actually become more prurient over the last 30 years. What precisely, I wonder, do the station managers consider "hard-core porn?"