M$NBC was just cut off by DIRECTV stating that I'm not authorized

[Cleita]

to receive that channel right at the beginning of the Rachel Maddow Show. Like hell I'm not! I pay for the extra channels in my package and have been receiving them for years. I'm now jumping through all the reset hoops and that takes forever. Has this happened to anyone else? I hope it's nothing nefarious. It's just that where I live we are becoming more and more isolated from real news. All our radio stations are now right wing Limbaugh, O'Reilly, etc.. Sat. TV is the last outlet besides the internet.

[lob1]

1. It happened to me, too. It's back on now.

[Cleita]

4. Mine too. Just came back on. Wonder what that was about?

If it happened to you then it seems it was a DIRECTV glitch not just my receiver.

[Tx4obama]

2. Previous thread with someone having problems on the link below

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/11741035

[Cleita]

6. Thanks. It's back on.

[lostincalifornia]

3. The lowest advertised package on directtv includes MSNBC. call tech support

[Cleita]

5. All swell. It came back on.

[lostincalifornia]

8. good. I am in California, no issues by the way

[Logical]

7. Glitches happen at times. Calm down. n-t

[madaboutharry]

9. I called Direct TV

They are having technical problems with some of the stations they carry.

[Cleita]

10. It seems. I hope it's not sabotage since none of the right wing shows

seem to be interrupted.

[Lint Head]

11. I am aware of quite a few people who hate DirectTV and have dropped it.

[Cleita]

12. For some of us it's the best choice among poor offerings.

[rurallib]

13. I have Dish - thought about changing a while back

and after much research came to the conclusion that Dish and Direct are about the same - and equally lousy - but are both better than cable.

Sadly this is what the internet will be if net neutrality is not saved

[Cleita]

14. I find direct a little better than dish. My family has dish and I have been

able to compare. I get better reception and fewer interruptions of service than they do. We have only one cable company and it sucks big time making satellite the only other choice.

[KathieG]

15. It happened to me twice tonight.

We had to "re-authorize" our receiver via the web site and when that didn't work we re-started the receiver...still didn't work. It finally came back on it's own.

[femmocrat]

16. Happened to me twice tonight.

At first I was mad as hell, because that is why we dropped Comcast.

Hope it is straightened out now. Maybe it's the fault of Nika.

[montanacowboy]

17. YES

it happened earlier also

[MoonchildCA]

18. Yup!

I was on hold 20 minutes with tech support, and it came back online right at the moment my call was answered. The guy said they were having technical issues with that station.