I work in the industry. Thank you Matthew!

There are still many people who will not believe a word of it when I explain this to them.

To illustrate I take out a paperclip, hold it up in front of the window, and ask them do you see it? Then I hold it in front of a lightbulb that is turned on and....you get the picture. Hopefully this explanation of yours will lend some believability to the problem.

it seems that thier was no nefarious intent or signal block, I dont understand why people would think there was, sometimes stuff just happens. I would hope the people of Cnn. knowing that an event like this may take place, would run the material again as soon as the outage was done. in all fairness, it is only right?

It would be better if the article referred to all the people who don't have tv because the goverment got involved.

Silly question, but it sounds like the broadcasters didn't announce this was going to happen before it did. Did they? I certainly don't mind running off to make some tea... A little "good bye for 5 minutes" would certainly be welcome if not done already!

Nice description of what happened without mentioning technical jargon like SNR and such.

They are not "rotating at the same speed as the earth". They are "orbiting" at the same rate the earth rotates.

Ideally CNN should inform people before the event if it s it possible to predict when it is likely to happen.

technology is gonna kill us all anyways who cares. get cable and youll be better off

@mark brown: Are you for real? You want CNN to string a cable from Atlanta, Georgia all the way to Hong Kong? This is not satellite TV they're talking about - they're talking about linking stations around the world via satellite. The amount of cable needed to do that would be unfathomable and completely impractical. Please keep your uninformed comments to yourself.