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Originally Posted by gomoho
We switched to Direct last March and looking to change again. Love what Direct TV has to offer as far as channels and ease of use, but you can count on outages everyday in the summer with the rains. And now they dropped the Weather Channel!
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Directv didn't drop the Winter Channel, which is owned by NBC which is owned by Comcast, a competitor. They are in negotiations, Comcast wants more money to carry their channel and Directv said no. Instead Directv in response to the Weather Channel carrying less weather and more reality TV has created Winter Nation one channel below on Channel 361 and is all weather all the time. It's kind of like MTV when they dropped videos to carry reality TV shows, in fact the blond hair gay weatherman that was on Good Morning America left them and was hired by the Weather Channel to create a talk show.
As far as Directv summer weather outages, I can remember maybe twice last summer losing all programing. You'll notice only the HD channels will go out during heavy rain, if you go to the menu and click on 'all channels', you find a non-HD version of every channel. Nine times out of ten, that channel will be available. For example, TNT HD on channel 245 goes out, bring up your menu and select 'all channels', then select the other channel 245. Usually it's only for a few minutes and the HD channel will return.