C-SPAN Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Online presence=== In January 1997, C-SPAN began real-time streaming of C-SPAN and C-SPAN2 on its website.<ref name=Milestones/> To cover the [[2008 Democratic National Convention|Democratic]] and [[2008 Republican National Convention|Republican]] conventions and the [[United States presidential election debates, 2008|presidential debates]] of 2008, C-SPAN created two standalone websites: the Convention Hub and the Debate Hub.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mashable.com/2008/09/26/don%E2%80%99t-like-twitter%E2%80%99s-election-site-c-span-has-a-way-cooler-alternative-really/ |title=Don't like Twitter's Election Site? C-SPAN Has a Way Cooler Alternative (Really!) |first=Adam |last=Ostrow |date=September 26, 2008 |work=mashable.com |publisher=[[Mashable]] |access-date=January 27, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100808142229/http://mashable.com/2008/09/26/don%E2%80%99t-like-twitter%E2%80%99s-election-site-c-span-has-a-way-cooler-alternative-really/ |archive-date=August 8, 2010 }}</ref> C-span.org features further live programming such as committee hearings and speeches that are broadcast later in the day, after the House and Senate have left.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.c-span.org/About/The-Company/Viewer-FAQ/ |title=Viewer FAQs |work=c-span.org |publisher=C-SPAN |access-date=September 27, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925045216/http://www.c-span.org/About/The-Company/Viewer-FAQ/ |archive-date=September 25, 2013 }}</ref> On January 12, 2017, the online feed for C-SPAN1 was interrupted and replaced by a feed from the Russian television network [[RT America]] for approximately 10 minutes.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bromwich|first1=Jonah Engel|title=C-Span Online Broadcast Interrupted by Russian Network|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/business/media/cspan-russia-today.html|work=The New York Times|date=January 12, 2017}}</ref> C-SPAN announced that they were troubleshooting the incident and were "operating under the assumption that it was an internal routing issue."<ref>{{Cite tweet|user=cspan|author=C-SPAN|number=819652454237278208|date =January 12, 2017|title=This afternoon the online feed for C-SPAN was briefly interrupted by RT programming.}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page