'Now the Local Feed goes out'

Now the Local Feed goes out

By Jamin Greensbury at 08/05/08 15:25

I won't lie to you, I am an avid viewer of the new American Gladiators. So if any of you are familiar, the finale was on last night. It was a two hour special, the first hour being the last of the semifinals and the second being the actual final. I watched the first hour, waiting for the second, more anticipated hour. But I wouldn't get to see that last hour.

I was primed and ready to go, popcorn in hand for the finale. That's when not even five minutes into the episode, the satellite feed goes out.

It was then I screamed, "NOOO!"

I have DirecTV at my home. We get a local feed for all the stations such as NBC, CBS, ABC, etc. Every other channel besides the local channels was working just fine.

So I was watching a blank screen for about 20 minutes until a message came up. The message made me aware this wasn't DirecTV's fault and they were doing everything to fix the problem. Then after about another 20 minutes, a message came up saying to switch to the national NBC channel. That was awesome, because I don't even get the channel and DirecTV provided it for free for the time it took the local feed to be fixed.

So I tuned into the last 10 minutes of Gladiators and saw one of the contestants was bruised and battered. Why couldn't I have seen how?!?

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