As you’re watching Hays Post and Eagle Community TV Channel 14 this week, you may experience a signal outage.

Blame it on the sun.

An astronomical phenomenon called sun outage disrupts cable TV service twice a year, during the spring and fall equinoxes.

At these times, the sun’s low path in the sky takes it directly behind a communication satellite that transmits signals to a station on earth.  The sun’s rays interfere with the signals between the communication satellite and the earth station.

Nope.  There’s nothing to prevent the mighty sun from interfering with your live TV viewing.

The good news–the solar outages are not expected to last more than 15 minutes a day.

Cable TV customers may notice the effects of the solar outage – blocks or momentary freezing on your TV – around these times.  You might even lose certain channels for a short time.  Unfortunately, there is nothing to prevent the mighty sun from interfering with your live TV viewing & thankfully