Effects of Solar Radiation on Local TV Stations

[Mario500]

Do you know of any local TV stations that have broadcast alternate programs in place of regular programs due to the possibility of solar radiation interfering with the satellite signals carrying the regular programs? I know of a recent example in the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida TV market:

"WFGX-TV's plan to avoid broadcasting programs vulnerable to solar interruptions"

 

[kenglish]

Live Well Network has a backup program in their local-station servers (I think it's an infomercial). We usually just ride it out, though. The signal gets noisy for a few minutes, but usually only dies for a couple of minutes on the worst/peak outage days.
We usually are not on NBC during the outage times, but can go to a backup C-band feed if we needed.

BTW, we are the uplink for the LDS Church networks, and there seems to always be a sun-outage right at the end of the morning sessions of their semi-annual conference. Because of that, we once computed that the outage on a particular satellite, using any commonly-sized dishes, would be only about 40-45 minutes total, all the way across North America (Newfoundland to Washington state). Locally, most are only about 10-20 minutes at all. You could almost cover an entire network with just a single alternate program.