Interesting. Here in Dallas, my Fox News channel on Direct TV has all of the sudden magically become a Spanish news channel. CNN is on but no Fox. Anyone else???? I smell a rat. Here we go again!
None of that on my DirecTV in eastern US. However, since just before Election Day, our news channels will go blank for about three seconds, then come back. Sometimes, the picture freezes like streaming channels do. These things NEVER happened before.
Sounds like you accidentally turned on the alternate audio channel.
Or, did they just renumber the channels?