During a segment of CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday night, a television station in Huntsville, Alabama, suffered an outage for 12 minutes.

The interruption of the WHNT-TV, a CBS affiliate in Huntsville, Ala., occurred about 6 p.m. CST just when the segment of “60 Minutes” began with a report about former Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman.

Many speculations appeared saying that the blackout was caused from political reason in order to keep the segment off the air.

Even so, the report was broadcasted on the television station Sunday and Monday nights and also on the Web site of the station.

Stan Pylant, the chief executive at the station, said: “We know what our license means to us. There were no political motives in this,” the New York Times reports.

Pylant said that the blackout was caused by a signal receiver.

He said: “The receiver failed to pick up the video from CBS.”

There were no problems before the “60 Minutes” segment started but as the show was just beginning the signal break off.

The report was focused on the conviction of bribery of Siegelman and included interviews and also a charge by a Republican operative who claims that Karl Rove, former Bush adviser, asked her to take pictures of Siegelman that could compromise him.

WHNT is part of a group which was owned by the New York Times Company and was purchased last year by Oak Hill Capital Partners.

However, this company it’s not the one managing the stations. This work is done by another company, Local TV L.L.C., whose chief executive, Bobby Lawrence, was a contributor to Republican political candidates, including Mr. Bush.

Plyant said that other three CBS stations, not from Alabama, didn’t have any problems during the broadcast of the “60 Minutes”.

He said: “This was just a G.M.’s worst nightmare. But we’re replaying it. We have had a crawl up telling people where they can see it. Believe me, I can get higher ratings than by going to a black screen.”