Jeff Holloway, 29, a news videographer at WBRE-TV Wilkes-Barre, Pa., has been suspended after being arrested and charged with possession of child pornography on his home computer. In addition, he was charged with taking nude photos of a 14-year-old girl.
Holloway, the target of a three-month investigation, says he is innocent. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for next week. In a statement, WBRE-TV VP/GM Larry Herbster pledged the station’s cooperation in any further investigation of the case, but news department staffers were not commenting on the story beyond confirming that it was true.
Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.
