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ATTN: Cablevision Customers

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RobertAnthony

I received this email...

Between 2/29 and 3/8, you may notice a very brief interruption in TV service due to Sun Outages. These interruptions last only a few minutes and are caused by the sun's interference with satellites that deliver TV service. The service will be restored automatically and there is nothing you will need to do
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There also is a link to an Excel spreadsheet of the channels affected and at what times the interference may take place.
 
RobertAnthony said:
I received this email...

Between 2/29 and 3/8, you may notice a very brief interruption in TV service due to Sun Outages. These interruptions last only a few minutes and are caused by the sun's interference with satellites that deliver TV service. The service will be restored automatically and there is nothing you will need to do
Click to expand...

There also is a link to an Excel spreadsheet of the channels affected and at what times the interference may take place.
Click to expand...

Nothing personal.....But the point is.....this has been happening since day one.It happens every year and there is nothing nobody can do about it.
 
What the Big 4 networks do about this.. is to simulcast their uplinks on two different satellites for the duration of the sun outage season.

At any given location and on any given day, the sun outage will be at the same time for all networks on the same satellite. It will be at a *different* time for all networks on a different satellite. (you can see that in the linked spreadsheet -- note, for example, that 46 different networks will have their outage at 1:21pm tomorrow; another 14 will have it at 2:15)

If you were to uplink Fox News simultaneously both on the satellite it's already on, and the one that MSG is on, then during the 1:21 sun outage, this cable operator could switch to using the signal from the MSG satellite, going back to the original satellite before 2:15.

Obviously this would be pretty expensive, which is why it doesn't happen. But it's not technically impossible to back this stuff up.
 
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