I assume a substantial delay would have been days or weeks in this case. According to the article it was months before they were reconnected to the internet. If

I assume a substantial delay would have been days or weeks in this case. According to the article it was months before they were reconnected to the internet. If the broadcast engineers weren't there, I assume the damage might have been too great to reverse in any reasonable amount of time. Terrestrial TV stations can lose your license if they go dark for too long. Obviously satellite is a little different, but I'm sure the people drawing up the contracts would understand that a station going dark is a possibility and would include contingencies for dark stations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_(broadcasting) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_(broadcasting)