C-SPAN 'investigating' why congressional livestream switched to Russia Today

[ehrnst]

On Thursday afternoon, C-SPAN's online live video coverage of Congress abruptly abruptly switched to a live feed of the Kremlin-backed news channel Russia Today. The livestream continued to show RT for about 10 minutes, before switching back to C-SPAN.

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.

Deadspin editor Tim Burke, who was watching the C-SPAN livestream at the time, recorded a video of the sudden switch.

"This afternoon the online feed of C-SPAN was briefly interrupted by RT programming," the network confirmed 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."

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

[riverwalker]

1. Then RT down for "maintenence" ?

A tit for tat pissing contest?

https://twitter.com/gissisim/status/819662915242520576

[Chipper Chat]

2. It's the beginning of the takeover of the US.

"C" span could become "Comrade-span".

[2naSalit]

3. I think I need to get all my money from the bank soon...

I ate to instigate a run on banks but all electronic files are vulnerable at this point. Start printing out everything that matters in writing... time's a wasting.

[HipChick]

5. going to start selling my stock

[DUgosh]

4. This happened in the movie

Independence Day, airwaves were taken intermittently - then the bad stuff started happening

[2naSalit]

6. did too.

[Skittles]

7. tell them to ask Trump