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Viewers Report Foreign Languages on Dish Network [Update]
KY3.com ^ | Story Updated: Aug 10, 2010 at 1:12 PM CDT | Paul Adler, KY3 News

Posted on 08/10/2010 2:32:56 PM PDT by Cindy

Story Published: Aug 10, 2010 at 7:54 AM CDT Story Updated: Aug 10, 2010 at 1:12 PM CDT

SNIPPET: "SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Viewers are calling the KY3 Newsroom and posting information on our KY3 Ozarks Today Facebook page about getting the wrong channels on Dish Network on Tuesday morning. Some of the channels are apparently in Chinese, Arabic and other languages."

SNIPPET: "UPDATE On Tuesday, August 10, 2010 12:24 PM, KY3 received an official statement from Dish Network regarding the issue.

“Starting at approximately 3:30 a.m. MDT, satellite uplink provider, EchoStar, experienced an equipment failure associated with a primary video router located at its uplink facility in Wyoming, which caused a portion of DISH Network’s standard definition channels to default to a variety of international channels. EchoStar identified the failure and restored service by 7 a.m. MDT. Local TV channels and high definition channels were not affected.”"

(Excerpt) Read more at ky3.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arabiclanguage; chineselanguage; dishnetwork; echostar; foreignlanguage; primaryvideorouter; satelliteuplink; tv; uplinkfacility; videorouter; wyoming

1 posted on 08/10/2010 2:32:59 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Velveeta

Update ping
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2568204/posts


2 posted on 08/10/2010 2:33:37 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Some folks will get the experience of shopping in another language. How diverse and inclusive!


3 posted on 08/10/2010 2:35:48 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Cindy

just a dry run for Operation Babel Tower (when the Leftist coup happens on Nov. 1 the American People will only be hearing about it in Mandarin and Urdu)


4 posted on 08/10/2010 2:41:58 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Buckeye, read the article.
It was an equipment failure.


5 posted on 08/10/2010 2:43:29 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Wake me if it starts defaulting to the porn channels.

;)


6 posted on 08/10/2010 2:45:45 PM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir!)
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To: Cindy

I was wondering what my son was watching this morning when I came downstairs. He was in making breakfast and he had some Arabic station on with a woman singing in the background that sounded like someone trying to skin a live cat. He told me he was watching Nickelodeon so I figured he hit the wrong numbers is all when I left. This explains it.


7 posted on 08/10/2010 2:48:04 PM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Cindy

I slept right thru.. will it be re-run later? ;-}


8 posted on 08/10/2010 2:49:42 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: Cindy
The "Press 1 for English" circuit blew.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

9 posted on 08/10/2010 2:51:40 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Abathar

This morning, instead of FOX news, we got an Indian talk show for 40 minutes. I was wondering WTH was going on.


10 posted on 08/10/2010 3:58:28 PM PDT by Marie (Obama seems to think that Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since Camp David, not King David)
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