Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage)

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 10, 2018 12:40:21 GMT

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Post by tech on Jan 10, 2018 12:40:21 GMT

Ive Recently Went To The Nikipedia And Went To Australia's Nick, And There Was This Part Of The Page That States, (Major Programming Outage), This Really Got To Me As I Wanted Some More Info On It, Other Than Just One Picture.

And Some Text, But This Is What The Nickipedia Says

'On December 22nd 2013, Nickelodeon Australia had major flurry technical difficulties and had to abandon regular programming. For about 10 hours they played an endless loop of SpongeBob episodes until they finally resolved the issue and continued programming. One of The Nickipedia members has statements.

"It was weird i was just watching Nickelodeon and it became weird, they said they had technical difficulties and were trying to resolve them and that spongebob would take over the show".

"At another point i saw a dark blue screen with a sign saying We are sufferrning major difficlulties and are trying to resolve them.
After every full episode of SpongeBob the commercial played that said We are suffering major technical difficulties SpongeBob will be taking over the show until we resolve them.'

Hopefully Anybody Finds Some Footage Of This Crazy Event

- Tech

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 13, 2018 17:16:28 GMT

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Post by apartofthenarrative on Jan 13, 2018 17:16:28 GMT

This is very odd. I will look into it a bit more.
Edit: Okay, I went onto the Wayback Machine to see if the issues were also on their website. As far as I can tell, on December 22, 2013, the website was operating as normal. Here is a link if you'd like to view it. Because DVR recordings were more common in 2013 than VHS, the only way any footage of this event could be found is if someone has a recording on a computer from 2013. There is still hope that footage could surface, yet it may be a cam-rip or other low quality video if it does.

Last Edit: Jan 13, 2018 17:26:47 GMT by apartofthenarrative

crumbelivable Lost Media Veteran LMW's skeptic-in-residence Posts: 3,018	Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 14, 2018 16:18:24 GMT via mobile Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by crumbelivable on Jan 14, 2018 16:18:24 GMT This might be bullshit. But I if it is, it's incredibly petty bullshit
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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 15, 2018 6:03:07 GMT nodog and chris like this

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Post by LetDown on Jan 15, 2018 6:03:07 GMT

Okay, since I find technical glitches interesting and even more so hoaxed media I decided to do some research. The very first thing to note is Nickelodeon Australia did not make mention of this event at all, not on their website nor on any social media accounts (from what I found). As a matter of fact at first it seemed to no be mentioned anywhere besides Wikipedia and that wiki. This makes sense for a regular glitch, as almost all of them aren't a big deal and get forgotten. But for a major one that was reported to last 10 hours or more it struck me as odd not a single mention was made. This, along with who edited the wiki articles led me to believe that it was a made up occurrence.

After doing some digging, however, I found these tweets made on the day of the reported incident:

@thenickshack was Nick Australia's handle at the time, and multiple people commenting on these reported technical difficulties proves that this outage did occur in some capacity and it's not a hoax.

The picture and mention of the incident on the nickelodeon wiki comes from a user by the name of Daniel Viglietti. I will not link it but his wiki userpage contains a link to an active twitter account which can possibly be used to contact him about the picture's origins. Given it was uploaded in March 2014 it may or may not be a hoaxed picture itself. The original mention of it on Wikipedia came on the day of the reported glitch by a user who said they used to be a troll. They also originally mentioned it lasted 24 hours, which was later changed to 10 by another user.

That's what makes this particular case interesting, everything originally seemed like this was 100% a 4 year long hoax, but the tweets make it most likely a real occurrence

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 20, 2018 3:23:22 GMT

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Post by vamp1597 on Jan 20, 2018 3:23:22 GMT

I looked at the Tweets from that day, and there were only four that came up. I don't know how Twitter works, so it might be perfectly normal for that to happen when doing a search, but it's still kind of weird. thenickshack looks like it was suspended, so there isn't a way to see if they had Tweeted anything (Wayback Machine doesn't work with Twitter). Their Facebook page now just redirects to what looks like a general Facebook for Nickelodeon, and there's no mention of the event there either. I also find it weird that something like this doesn't seem to be so well documented. All there looks to be are the four tweets, the mentions on the Nick Wiki and Wikipedia, and sites that just copied what was said on Wikipedia. I'm also curious as to where the user who posted the "We've got a problem" picture got it from. Unless they posted it on one of their now defunct social media pages, then it'd be weird an internet user got a clean screenshot, since it wouldn't be something that would be reused necessarily.

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 20, 2018 15:59:07 GMT

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Post by apartofthenarrative on Jan 20, 2018 15:59:07 GMT

I've since checked their Instagram page as well. There were no posts until Christmas eve of 2013 from the time of the outage. The we got a problem picture is a little odd. As vamp1597 said, finding information on that may be out starting place.

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 20, 2018 20:41:51 GMT

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Post by matan2001 on Jan 20, 2018 20:41:51 GMT

Jan 20, 2018 3:23:22 GMT vamp1597 said:

I'm also curious as to where the user who posted the "We've got a problem" picture got it from. Unless they posted it on one of their now defunct social media pages, then it'd be weird an internet user got a clean screenshot, since it wouldn't be something that would be reused necessarily.

Why do you think it's a "clean" screenshot? To me it looks like a photo from a camera pointed at a television...

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 20, 2018 22:23:02 GMT

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Post by vamp1597 on Jan 20, 2018 22:23:02 GMT

Jan 20, 2018 20:41:51 GMT matan2001 said:

Jan 20, 2018 3:23:22 GMT vamp1597 said:

I'm also curious as to where the user who posted the "We've got a problem" picture got it from. Unless they posted it on one of their now defunct social media pages, then it'd be weird an internet user got a clean screenshot, since it wouldn't be something that would be reused necessarily.

Why do you think it's a "clean" screenshot? To me it looks like a photo from a camera pointed at a television...

I guess "clean" wasn't the best way to describe it, but it's more that it's a higher quality picture than what I've seen for a photo of a TV screen. Normally it's off-color and kind of fuzzy, but this screenshot looks more like it's a photo of a piece of paper or a screen cap taken on a computer.

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 22, 2018 16:39:55 GMT

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Post by masaru2000 on Jan 22, 2018 16:39:55 GMT

You remembered a similar event what happen in chile in 2013 when during a comercial break the channel was black for 5 o 10 minutes and later there was image what i says "Estamos Reparando" (We are fixing in english) with a image of timmy turner down of the screen, but this has a minor outrage (30 minutes/1 hour)

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 25, 2018 2:11:16 GMT

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Post by lilyofthevalley on Jan 25, 2018 2:11:16 GMT

Jan 23, 2018 15:56:31 GMT TriangularBird said:

Do we know if this is true or not?

Sadly this is still unconfirmed.

Based upon the tweets and the personal account, the event has a chance of being real. However, nowhere in the personal account does it say anything about the Spongebob image.

Why I think the image might be fake or a placeholder:

1. I looked up Nickelodeon technical difficulties and when they have them, they usually have the SMPTE color bars, the Nick logo, or fixes itself with no explanation (although there are a lot of fakes).

2. I find that a network to only say "we have a problem" with no context, along with one of the most recognizable characters looking horrified would be extremely unprofessional and bad communication, especially with the demographic of the audience. Cartoon has it's "Check back in a sec" thing, so it couldn't so hard to say "we are experiencing technical difficulties."

3. Wait, the account says "At another point i saw a dark blue screen with a sign saying We are sufferrning major difficlulties and are trying to resolve them. After every full episode of SpongeBob the commercial played that said We are suffering major technical difficulties SpongeBob will be taking over the show until we resolve them.''

So why would the image only say "we have a problem"?

4. Is it just me or does the font look like the Lost Media Wiki Logo font ?

5. In the image, Spongebob looks closer to his original animation style, where by 2013 he should've looked like the newer, higher quality animation put in place.

Then again, I don't know how Nick Australia works...

Last Edit: Jan 25, 2018 2:12:20 GMT by lilyofthevalley

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 26, 2018 1:48:33 GMT lilyofthevalley likes this

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Post by LetDown on Jan 26, 2018 1:48:33 GMT

Ok, so I just contacted the individual who posted the image on the wiki, he says that he took the picture himself and he is going to make a account here shortly to talk about it. If he doesn't then I'll eventually post what he said.

On another note, for those asking here is the @thenickshack twitter account in 2014. The account itself isn't what matters, but that the tweets about the glitch were directed to a source where they thought Nick could see them. I fully believe at this point that this occurred.

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 26, 2018 5:34:44 GMT

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Post by lilyofthevalley on Jan 26, 2018 5:34:44 GMT

Jan 26, 2018 1:48:33 GMT LetDown said:

Ok, so I just contacted the individual who posted the image on the wiki, he says that he took the picture himself and he is going to make a account here shortly to talk about it. If he doesn't then I'll eventually post what he said.

On another note, for those asking here is the @thenickshack twitter account in 2014. The account itself isn't what matters, but that the tweets about the glitch were directed to a source where they thought Nick could see them. I fully believe at this point that this occurred.

That's really great news LetDown. I'll be more than happy to have any of my thoughts and theories proven wrong if it means finding another lost piece of media.

I do wish we could have a second eyewitness account of the event though. I am also wondering if the individual managed to get any footage of the event.

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 26, 2018 21:24:41 GMT lilyofthevalley likes this

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Post by viggers on Jan 26, 2018 21:24:41 GMT

Jan 26, 2018 1:48:33 GMT LetDown said:

Ok, so I just contacted the individual who posted the image on the wiki, he says that he took the picture himself and he is going to make a account here shortly to talk about it. If he doesn't then I'll eventually post what he said.

On another note, for those asking here is the @thenickshack twitter account in 2014. The account itself isn't what matters, but that the tweets about the glitch were directed to a source where they thought Nick could see them. I fully believe at this point that this occurred.

Thank you for the introduction LetDown.
Hello everyone, I'm Daniel, the individual who posted the image on wikia. I'll start with my recount and then answer some of the questions I've read here.

I was watching Nickelodeon, I can't remember what program, it may have been The Thundermans or a re-run of iCarly but again nearly 5 years ago I'm not sure, when everything went crazy, the show cut out and was black for a few seconds, and the program resumed, then it cut out again after a few seconds and a blue screen appeared with a We are sufferrning major difficlulties and are trying to resolve them. Then that "We've Got A Problem" ad as shown above came on, it had the classic "Nick, nick, nick, nick, nick" tune and the normal Nickelodeon Australia commentator said "We've got a problem, Spongebob will be taking over until it's resolved", and then for I think 7-10 hours there was just an endless loop of Spongebob episodes, you could tell that they weren't expecting this to happen forever because the episodes started repeating and then eventually programming resumed to I think a show about surfing or something, I also remember that my friend was dissapointed about it too because he wanted to watch Haunted Hathaways. But yeah, that's all I really remember.

As for answering some of your questions.
@crumbelievable: It's not bullshit,

apartofthenarrative: Thanks for that Wayback Machine, I never knew that existed and it would definitely help with my school work.

vamp1597 and @matan2007: That photo is a screenshot from my Instagram page, however just for you guys I have found the original image which proves I took the photo on my iPad on the day this happened. If you want to go into specifics, it was an iPad Air. I'm gonna post the photo (if I can figure out how to lol).

Ok yeah, I couldn't figure out how to so here is an imgur link: imgur.com/a/IL09b

Hopefully the full resolution comes out but if not I'm sure LetDown will be happy to post it.

lilyofthevalley
1) Is that Nickelodeon or Nickelodeon Australia. The outage did not fix itself, for 10 hours, that's why it was a MAJOR outage.
2) They didn't just say we have a problem, that's what it said on the screen, but the voiceover said "Oh oh, we've got a problem, Spongebob will be taking over the show until it's resolved" The ad would replay after every spongebob episode after a black screen for a couple of seconds.
3) Just answered that, the screen said we have a problem but there was a voiceover.
4) As for the spongebob animation, perhaps they A) Have this commercial in this archive and don't bother changing it when there is an issue or B) It's not the lost media wiki font, I never even knew about Lost Media Wiki until yesterday,

And plain and simply, this event isn't fake, I don't understand why you're all making it such a controversy.

LetDown: Yes, I'm sure Nickelodeon AUSTRALIA viewers were sending those tweets to where they think Nickelodeon would read them.

lilyofthevalley: Unfortunately that image is the only footage. Although as for a second eyewitness account I'm sure you could contact those three twitter users in the image above. I'll even be happy to do that for you.

Now for all of you, I have contacted Nickelodeon Australia just so you can close your case. I just don't understand why a simple network outage is becoming such a controversy/conspiracy theory after nearly 5 years.

Hopefully all of this helps you.

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Jan 26, 2018 22:19:26 GMT

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Post by lilyofthevalley on Jan 26, 2018 22:19:26 GMT

Jan 26, 2018 21:24:41 GMT viggers said:

Jan 26, 2018 1:48:33 GMT LetDown said:

Ok, so I just contacted the individual who posted the image on the wiki, he says that he took the picture himself and he is going to make a account here shortly to talk about it. If he doesn't then I'll eventually post what he said.

On another note, for those asking here is the @thenickshack twitter account in 2014. The account itself isn't what matters, but that the tweets about the glitch were directed to a source where they thought Nick could see them. I fully believe at this point that this occurred.

Thank you for the introduction LetDown.
Hello everyone, I'm Daniel, the individual who posted the image on wikia. I'll start with my recount and then answer some of the questions I've read here.

I was watching Nickelodeon, I can't remember what program, it may have been The Thundermans or a re-run of iCarly but again nearly 5 years ago I'm not sure, when everything went crazy, the show cut out and was black for a few seconds, and the program resumed, then it cut out again after a few seconds and a blue screen appeared with a We are sufferrning major difficlulties and are trying to resolve them. Then that "We've Got A Problem" ad as shown above came on, it had the classic "Nick, nick, nick, nick, nick" tune and the normal Nickelodeon Australia commentator said "We've got a problem, Spongebob will be taking over until it's resolved", and then for I think 7-10 hours there was just an endless loop of Spongebob episodes, you could tell that they weren't expecting this to happen forever because the episodes started repeating and then eventually programming resumed to I think a show about surfing or something, I also remember that my friend was dissapointed about it too because he wanted to watch Haunted Hathaways. But yeah, that's all I really remember.

As for answering some of your questions.
@crumbelievable: It's not bullshit,

apartofthenarrative : Thanks for that Wayback Machine, I never knew that existed and it would definitely help with my school work.

vamp1597 and @matan2007: That photo is a screenshot from my Instagram page, however just for you guys I have found the original image which proves I took the photo on my iPad on the day this happened. If you want to go into specifics, it was an iPad Air. I'm gonna post the photo (if I can figure out how to lol).

Ok yeah, I couldn't figure out how to so here is an imgur link: imgur.com/a/IL09b

Hopefully the full resolution comes out but if not I'm sure LetDown will be happy to post it.

lilyofthevalley
1) Is that Nickelodeon or Nickelodeon Australia. The outage did not fix itself, for 10 hours, that's why it was a MAJOR outage.
2) They didn't just say we have a problem, that's what it said on the screen, but the voiceover said "Oh oh, we've got a problem, Spongebob will be taking over the show until it's resolved" The ad would replay after every spongebob episode after a black screen for a couple of seconds.
3) Just answered that, the screen said we have a problem but there was a voiceover.
4) As for the spongebob animation, perhaps they A) Have this commercial in this archive and don't bother changing it when there is an issue or B) It's not the lost media wiki font, I never even knew about Lost Media Wiki until yesterday,

And plain and simply, this event isn't fake, I don't understand why you're all making it such a controversy.

LetDown : Yes, I'm sure Nickelodeon AUSTRALIA viewers were sending those tweets to where they think Nickelodeon would read them.

lilyofthevalley : Unfortunately that image is the only footage. Although as for a second eyewitness account I'm sure you could contact those three twitter users in the image above. I'll even be happy to do that for you.

Now for all of you, I have contacted Nickelodeon Australia just so you can close your case. I just don't understand why a simple network outage is becoming such a controversy/conspiracy theory after nearly 5 years.

Hopefully all of this helps you.

Firstly welcome to the Lost Media Wiki forums! We're glad you could join us.
Secondly thank you for the extension of information. It's extremely helpful and since I do not have a twitter contacting those people would be appreciated.
Thirdly I apologize if I made you think I was trying to make a "conspiracy theory" out of this. I was just trying to make observations on what we had for information and creating theories, nothing more. This whole event is interesting, and I hope I can help you find more information on this.

Last Edit: Jan 27, 2018 1:26:44 GMT by lilyofthevalley

Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage)

Post by tech on Jan 10, 2018 12:40:21 GMT

Post by apartofthenarrative on Jan 13, 2018 17:16:28 GMT

Post by crumbelivable on Jan 14, 2018 16:18:24 GMT

Post by LetDown on Jan 15, 2018 6:03:07 GMT

Post by vamp1597 on Jan 20, 2018 3:23:22 GMT

Post by apartofthenarrative on Jan 20, 2018 15:59:07 GMT

Post by matan2001 on Jan 20, 2018 20:41:51 GMT

Post by vamp1597 on Jan 20, 2018 22:23:02 GMT

Post by masaru2000 on Jan 22, 2018 16:39:55 GMT

Post by TriangularBird on Jan 23, 2018 15:56:31 GMT

Post by lilyofthevalley on Jan 25, 2018 2:11:16 GMT

Post by LetDown on Jan 26, 2018 1:48:33 GMT

Post by lilyofthevalley on Jan 26, 2018 5:34:44 GMT

Post by viggers on Jan 26, 2018 21:24:41 GMT

Post by lilyofthevalley on Jan 26, 2018 22:19:26 GMT

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