Satalite vs Antenna TV

TechWriter wrote:

GGeorge wrote:
My local cable company is always running an ad about cable being better than satalite TV because of the continuous availability of service vs cloud cover and the blockage of the satalite beam to your tv. Is this still a really big problem?

Cable TV can have that same problem as it uses sat dishes too:

Except the large dishes the cable services use are almost immune to rain fade. Back when we had a 12' C-band dish, the only time we lost the signal was when snow build up got deep enough to attenuate the signal. As soon as we remotely flipped the dish over to dump the excess snow, the signal came right back. The big fixed dishes are subject to seasonal solar blackouts though. The cable companies usually post a notice when it's due.