I was watching BBC in my hotel room on Sunday night when the TV went black and lost its sound when the newscaster went something like “Xinhuanet has reported that Zhao Ziyang, former Communist party leader…”
Thirty seconds later, the TV came back on again with the newscaster reporting something on the Philippines.
Right. I figured the foreign news channels must be monitored 24/7 for someone to hit the button and stop transmission any time anything of a politically sensitive nature goes on air.