Sun Outages and the affects on TV Service What are Sun Outages? Twice a year (spring and fall), TV providers experience a technical phenomenon called “sun outages.” For a period of about 2 weeks, the sun causes “solar interference” to all geostationary satellite signals. As the sun’s path across the sky gets lower each day,Read more
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Get the facts on Local Broadcaster Retransmission Fees What are the retransmission consent negotiations? A decades-old federal law empowers broadcasters, including corporations that own TV stations such as ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC, to charge fees to local TV providers for the right to carry or “retransmit” their signals even though over the air programmingRead more
National vs. Rural Internet Pricing When you live in a small town (especially if you were once a city-dweller), you love the pace of life but may miss one major perk: high-speed internet at urban pricing. You may even think, “Well, I guess I don’t really need the speed.” Or you might just grumble, “HowRead more
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