Whoops! White House Live Stream Plays ESPN

First published at WashingtonTimes.com

We knew President Obama was a big sports fan, but he broadcast that to the world today when the White House video live stream played nearly 10 minutes of ESPN programming.

The tech snafu appeared to begin at 10:56 a.m. when the feed awoke. It was last used late last night when the White House played audio of the president's commencement speech at Arizona State University. It was scheduled to begin again around noon for Obama's town hall in Albuquerque.

At 11:04 a.m. someone seemed to catch the error and the ESPN News briefing first went mute and then stopped.

A panel flashed on the site informing surfers, "We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with this channel."

But a few minutes later the feed started up again, this time with CNBC's show "The Call."

That ran until 11:17 when the feed went dark again.

I'll update this post as soon as I hear back from the White House.

— Christina Bellantoni, White House correspondent, 
The Washington Times

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Comments

[talkitreal]

So what!

[jade7243]

Omigod this is a real travesty.. a perversion­... How are we supposed to get change we can believe in when people at the White House are watching sports on ESPN and CNBC???? How are we supposed to get information when the screens go blank?

shouldn't those screens be playing C-Span? Or NPR audio? What are we going to do? This is clearly what happens when the "Democrat-Socialist Party" comes to power! And to think... they've taken their sweet time about explaining what happened. Next thing you know it'll be Al-Jazeera All the Time!!!

Shocking!!!!

I'd say it was a slow news day... but it wasn't.