DirecTV Olympics Snafu: Closing Ceremony Goes Dark for SoCal
Coming off the heels of another blackout due to a heated dispute with Viacom – DirecTV suffers another outage – this time due to technical reasons. At 9:45 PM PST, DirecTV’s broadcast of the Olympic Closing Ceremonies began to break up intermittently. The hiccups became worse and worse until the signal completely went black. This went on for 20 minutes of the broadcast and was accompanied by elevator jazz and the following message on the screen: … Read more