A complaint about television footage of bare-breasted women from last year's Boobs on Bikes parade has not been upheld by the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
Ami Angus of North Shore City complained to the authority about the 3 News broadcast of the parade, saying it breached good taste and decency, programme classification and children's interests.
TV3 had not warned viewers that there was nudity in the item or teasers preceding it, she said.
Ms Angus said children should not have "explicit images" of bare-breasted women forced upon them without warning.
The item "did not need to continually show women's bare breasts all the way through" and the footage was "definitely gratuitous and intended to titillate viewers", she said in her complaint to the BSA.
In a decision released today, the authority said while the parade was not to everyone's tastes, it was a newsworthy event that had drawn a large crowd.
It said the report had focused on the crowd response to the parade, as opposed to the women taking part, and had only contained two brief shots of bare-breasted women.
The authority found that the teasers gave viewers adequate opportunity to stop watching, and a teaser showing bare breasts did not breach good taste and decency standards.
It was unlikely young children would watch the news unaccompanied, and their caregivers had been given an adequate warning about the item through the teasers, the authority said.
