If you are experiencing issues with local channels today, February 27, 2024, it’s not just you.
Users across the country are reporting issues with the 99 satellite for DIRECTV. This affects local channels in many markets, as well as several national channels. DIRECTV is working hard to resolve this issue and as I write this has no official statement on their site or on their X.com accounts.
The standard definition versions are unaffected, although not every area has standard definition locals. Here’s a tutorial for Genie users to show SD duplicates. Here’s a tutorial for non-Genie users.
The DIRECTV app is unaffected by this outage.
If you have a Genie system, you’ll automatically switch to the streaming version using SignalSaver. When the outage is over, things will fix themselves.
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Users across the country are reporting issues with the 99 satellite for DIRECTV. This affects local channels in many markets, as well as several national channels. DIRECTV is working hard to resolve this issue and as I write this has no official statement on their site or on their X.com accounts.
What you can do:
You can tune to the standard definition version of the channels.
The standard definition versions are unaffected, although not every area has standard definition locals. Here’s a tutorial for Genie users to show SD duplicates. Here’s a tutorial for non-Genie users.
You can use the DIRECTV app on your phone or tablet.
The DIRECTV app is unaffected by this outage.
You can use SignalSaver on your Genie.
If you have a Genie system, you’ll automatically switch to the streaming version using SignalSaver. When the outage is over, things will fix themselves.
The post NOT JUST YOU: DIRECTV 99 satellite is down for everyone right now appeared first on The Solid Signal Blog.
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