Saturday, July 20, 2024

Nickelodeon and Paramount Channels Affected By Global IT Outage

It appears that many of Paramount Global's channels were affected by the global technology outage on Friday, July 19, including Nicktoons, Nick Jr. and TeenNick in the U.S., causing many to display "Technical Difficulties" slides.

Nicktoons' Technical Difficulties Slide

The cause of the disruptions originated from a cybersecurity firm called CrowdStrike, which provides software to a wide range of industries. An update to one of CrowdStrike’s pieces of software, Falcon Sensor, malfunctioned, throwing a wrench into computers running Windows, leading to major tech failures around the world, the company said.

The outage started about 1:45am ET, with Nicktoons being down until about 4:45aam.

TeenNick (East Feed) started glitching about 1:19am ET during iCarly, and remained dark for about 20 minutes before returning, starting over where "iSell Penny Tees" glitched. The rest of the iCarly marathon was off schedule. Because of the 20-minute delay, all the remaining iCarly marathon was shifted down. After "iOMG" aired in full (ending about 5:57am, instead of the scheduled 5:36am), the last episode "iOwe You" only aired for its last 90 seconds (no intro or credits).

Nick Jr.'s Technical Difficulties Slide

Other Paramount channels affected by the outage included MTV Classic, VH1, VH1 Soul, MTV Jams, and Logo.

Meanwhile, in Australia, Channel 10's news service went offline, with "humble news social team admins" uploading a homemade error image on their official X/Twitter account:


Nick Jr. (USA, West) - Technical Difficulties (July 19th 2024)







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Originally published: July 20, 2024.

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