Why would a TV channel suddenly change the program?

I had it happen when I still had satellite. Somewhere I found that it could be a rogue electronic signal triggering the remote or TV. I don't remember which.
 
There's been a few times I ran into my PC to check what all was on my signal. I could have sworn someone
was using my signal and trying to change channels. But my network signal showed just mine on there.
 
My air tv channels do that occasionally.

I’ve always assumed that local or regional programming is being broadcast over some national broadcast on the same channel.

Similar to when a national network channel allows local affiliates to broadcast their local news and programs of local interest.

Sometimes it switches for just a few seconds and then goes back to ‘my’ program.

Not sure if it’s a human error, a blank spot for a local commercial message, or a technical issue of some type. 🤷‍♀️
 
If this is free over the air channels you're watching, then you have your answer.

Stations are requires by law to provide free over the air programming. But they don't really want to.

I watch free channels via antenna and often the info at the top of the screen doesn't match the program being broadcast.

At other times, the end of a game show on Buzzr gets cut off at mid sentence and the next scheduled game show comes on.
 
debodun said:
No - basic cable TV.
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Maybe some contractor played with the buttons. I once worked at a contractor's office and one of our guys was bored on a job at a cable TV headend. He started changing channels on a TV monitor not realizing it changed what went out to customers. Well, he found a porn channel and left it on. That porn channel went out to families everywhere in the middle of the day. Needless to say he was fired from our company.

A cable TV headend is a facility that receives television signals for processing and distribution over a cable television system. It houses the necessary equipment to manage and transmit these signals to subscribers' homes.
 
debodun said:
No - basic cable TV.
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That's weird.

I'm going to take a guess; that movie is just shy of 2 hours long, but the channel put it in a 1-hour time slot.

That happens when programmers forget or are too lazy to check run-times. If that channel uses robots to schedule programing, then it didn't scan the run-time for some reason, like maybe it was in an unusual location, or it was obscured or omitted.
 
debodun said:
I was watching "How Green was My Valley" on the FXM channel. About a half an hour into it, it suddenly changed to "The King and I" already in progress.
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Someone did you a favor and switched to superior movie. I saw Yul Brynner on Broadway in the 1970's in a revival of The King and I. Great show! I loved it!
 
I watch programs on Pluto and Tubi TV. I have had that happen on the "live channels" on Pluto. It has never happened yet on the On Demand programs.
 
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