C-SPAN broadcast interrupted by Russian network

Here’s the moment Russia Today took over the C-SPAN1 feed. Unclear what happened. RT aired for about ten minutes before C-SPAN1 came back. pic.twitter.com/mhWVgCoFxF
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 12, 2017

The Kremlin-backed Russia Today network mysteriously replaced a C-Span broadcast of a House committee hearing for about 10 minutes Thursday — leading the public affairs station to launch an investigation.
“This afternoon the online feed C-SPAN was briefly interrupted by RT programming,” the station said.
“We are currently investigating and troubleshooting this occurrence. As RT is one of the networks we routinely monitor we are operating under the assumption that it was an internal routing issue.”

The interruption came during an online broadcast on C-SPAN1 that was carrying a discussion about the Securities and Exchange Regulatory Accountability Act.
As Rep. Maxine Waters was speaking at a lectern, the feed suddenly cut to RT television, which was airing an advertisement for “the magnificent bay San Esperil in #San Escobar.”
“Good climate perfect holiday” the ad promised with Caribbean-style music playing in the background.
On Tuesday, Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski mistakenly referred to St. Kitts and Nevis as “San Escoabr,” which doesn’t exist.
The ad on RT was apparently aimed at mocking the foreign minister.
Suddenly the ad cut to a logo for RT and a news anchor wearing a suit came on to announce, “News just came in. Six people have died and numerous injuries have been reported by local police after a suicide bombing.”
The interruption by RT comes as US intelligence leaders have said Russia hacked into the Democratic National Committee computers and the email accounts of Hillary Clinton campaign workers in the presidential election.
When the link showing RT breaking into the C-SPAN feed was posted on Twitter, the comments poured in.
“Test run for Putins eventual national address? Unreal,” wrote Brian Whitman on the social networking site.
“And I for one welcome our new Russian overlords,” Steve Rausch tweeted.