C-SPAN Says It's Investigating Bizarre RT Interruption Of Its Online Broadcast

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C-SPAN confirmed Thursday afternoon that its online feed had been temporarily interrupted by the Kremlin-backed news outfit RT, formerly known as Russia Today.

"This afternoon the online feed for C-SPAN was briefly interrupted by RT programming," the network said in a statement. "We are currently investigating and troubleshooting this occurrence. As RT is one of the networks we regularly monitor, we are operating under the assumption that it was an internal routing issue. If that changes we will certainly let you know."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rt-interrupts-cspan-online-feed

[FarCenter]

1. Happened while Maxine Waters was speaking...

The sudden cut to RT, an English-language network funded by the Russian government, happened at about 2:30 p.m., while Rep. Maxine Waters was speaking about SEC regulation.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/01/c-span-livestream-suddenly-switches-to-russia-today-livestream-233557?lo=ap_a1

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4. I saw that in a video.

I wasn't watching at the time, but I figured some others here would have been and they'd like an explanation.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. It's a dry run for when Putin takes over the world and comes on everybody's tv like The Joker...

It's a dry run for when Putin takes over the world and comes on everybody's tv like The Joker in a Batman movie.

[herding cats]

3. I'd laugh, but who knows anymore what the future holds.

This was one weird hack, that's for sure.