Venezuela government takes CNN and BBC off the air
|New York (CNN Business)CNN was taken off the air by the Venezuelan government on Tuesday moments after the network broadcast a feed that showed military vehicles running over protestors in Caracas.
DirecTV, Net Uno, Intercable, and Telefónica all received orders from Venezuela’s government regulator Conatel to block CNN. (DirecTV and CNN are both owned by AT&T.)
A BBC spokesperson told CNN that BBC Global News had also been taken off the air in the South American country.