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Dish Network HD Goes Dark!
By Swanni

Washington, D.C. (September 14, 2011) -- Dish Network yesterday suddenly lost the signal to its High-Definition channels, sending subscribers scrambling to their phones and calling customer assistance.

CNN reports that a Dish spokesman said the outage was caused by a "satellite anomaly," which is tech speak for a satellite going out. The company's 'satellite 129' was suspected to be the satellite in disrepair.

It was unclear how many HD channels were blacked out, but one TVPredictions.com reader reports that it was more than 10; others on Internet message boards said it was many more than that.

However, Dish customers at the satellite forums DBSTalk.com and SatelliteGuys.Us were reporting this morning that the HD channels were back on the air, except for local HD channels in some areas.

As of this writing, Dish's Twitter pages had not been updated with a confirmation that the HD channels had been returned.

Dish's Twitter page this morning was advising customers to re-set their receivers so they could watch the standard-definition version of their favorite HD channels. The Twitter page had not been updated for four hours, as of 5:16 a.m. ET.