It's tit-for-tat between cable and satellite companies.
Time Warner used to run ads that showed a family trying to watch a movie and as soon as the weather turned bad the satellite signal went out. Many of you may have seen the ad where the guy meets the girl that just moved in next door and then he is out on the roof messing with the satellite dish as she is undressing near an open window. She notices and freaks out and he says 'No (meaning he is not a peeping-tom)...I just want my TV to work'.
The funny thing is though, sometimes when you call TW to report a cable outage they say they are aware of it - and blame it on the weather!
