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Just a curiosity: Problems like mine weren't an issue in the old days of analog TVs, was it?
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No, an analog signal would have had lot's of 'sparkles' or interfering lines in the picture... but the picture and sound would not have gone away abruptly.
The new digital signal includes extra data that helps the receiver do 'forward error correction'. But given enough interference, it will fail to recover error free data, at which point the receiver has to go through the process of of locking on again, which it can't do if the signal is still being interfered with.
The upside of digital is the nearly flawless picture quality when you have a lock on a signal, even with the bare minimum signal quality. In the analog days, you'd see a lot of snow and ghosting at that point.
Cheers, glad to help.