Phoenix-area Cox customers complain of scrambled TV picture after Democratic debate began

[TexasTowelie]

Television sets in many areas of the Valley, apparently serviced by Cox Communications, began displaying partially scrambled pictures just as Wednesday night's Democratic primary debate began, according to numerous reports from viewers.

About half a dozen residents in various parts of the Phoenix metro area have called The Arizona Republic to complain about strange blocks, lines, broken audio and other signal issues which began at about 6 p.m. It was affecting not only two networks broadcasting the debate, but other channels.

The readers who called lived in Peoria, north Phoenix, north Scottsdale and Sun City West. All of them said they were Cox Communications customers.

The signal issues also affected televisions in The Arizona Republic newsroom in downtown Phoenix, where Cox provides service.

Read more: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-breaking/2019/06/26/phoenix-area-cox-customers-complain-scrambled-tv-picture-after-democratic-debate-began/1579622001/

[msongs]

1. youtube feed was mostly unwatchable so did not see much nt

[TexasTowelie]

2. I was watching on http://www.livenewschat.eu/politics/

and the video froze several times so I had to keep hitting the refresh button. I probably got about 75%-80% of the debate.

I thought the other candidates attacked Beto a lot. They probably realized that attacking Warren would look sexist so he became the target of choice. Beto was not very effective in his responses to those attacks. He will need to step up his game in future debates.

[Anon-C]

3. I think this was deliberate and apparently retaliatory on the part of the trumpist ownership and...

...management at Cox. It was more widespread than just AZ, and was done in large part to retaliate for the Reddits demotion of duh_donald.