Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage)

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Feb 10, 2018 8:35:56 GMT

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Post by tomysshadow on Feb 10, 2018 8:35:56 GMT

What exactly is this search for though? If the image that was displayed during the outage already exists what else is there? Doesn't the article say that's all that was displayed with regular Spongebob episodes inbetween?

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Feb 10, 2018 19:12:46 GMT

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Post by lilyofthevalley on Feb 10, 2018 19:12:46 GMT

Feb 10, 2018 8:35:56 GMT tomysshadow said:

What exactly is this search for though? If the image that was displayed during the outage already exists what else is there? Doesn't the article say that's all that was displayed with regular Spongebob episodes inbetween?

No?

"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." -Nickpedia, Nickelodeon Austrailia, Major Programming Outage.

There's also the supposed audio that played along with the image. Not only that but we don't even known the whole origin of the outage: was it Nickelodeon of Foxtel? There are clues that it was Foxtel but this hasn't been confirmed.

Edit: Didn't see some of the previous posts before posting this, my bad. We can likely say that it was Foxtel/Viacom. What we are looking for is if anyone recorded the audio from the Spongebob image or the other "Technical Difficulties" message.

Last Edit: Feb 10, 2018 19:22:21 GMT by lilyofthevalley

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Feb 12, 2018 7:43:19 GMT via mobile lilyofthevalley likes this

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Post by viggers on Feb 12, 2018 7:43:19 GMT

Feb 10, 2018 4:02:57 GMT Terry the Cat said:

Feb 10, 2018 2:40:00 GMT viggers said:

lilyofthevalley Yes I did have Foxtel.

Okay. This might very well solve it.

Based on all the evidence, there appears to have been a larger Foxtel/Viacom outage in December 2013, but only in a specific area of the country. They couldn't fix the issue for at least 10 hours, so they aired a loop of SpongeBob (presumably across all the affected channels). The title card viggers provided us aired in between airings of SpongeBob, as well as at the beginning of the outage.

By the way, viggers, which part of the country were you at in 2013?

Melbourne

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Feb 12, 2018 11:41:02 GMT via mobile

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Post by Terry the Cat on Feb 12, 2018 11:41:02 GMT

Feb 12, 2018 7:43:19 GMT viggers said:

Feb 10, 2018 4:02:57 GMT Terry the Cat said:

By the way, viggers, which part of the country were you at in 2013?

Melbourne

Well, there we go. We can now connect your incident with the series of larger incidents going on at the time.

Someone mentioned that footage needed to be found. What footage, exactly?

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Feb 12, 2018 19:48:25 GMT

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Post by lilyofthevalley on Feb 12, 2018 19:48:25 GMT

Feb 12, 2018 11:41:02 GMT Terry the Cat said:

Feb 12, 2018 7:43:19 GMT viggers said:

Melbourne

Well, there we go. We can now connect your incident with the series of larger incidents going on at the time.

Someone mentioned that footage needed to be found. What footage, exactly?

I didn't say it needed to be found. I only suggested seeing if anyone had recorded the "technical difficulties" screens and audio. I'm not necessarily sure if anyone would have...

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Feb 12, 2018 21:43:21 GMT via mobile lilyofthevalley likes this

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Post by Terry the Cat on Feb 12, 2018 21:43:21 GMT

Feb 12, 2018 19:48:25 GMT lilyofthevalley said:

Feb 12, 2018 11:41:02 GMT Terry the Cat said:

Well, there we go. We can now connect your incident with the series of larger incidents going on at the time.

Someone mentioned that footage needed to be found. What footage, exactly?

I didn't say it needed to be found. I only suggested seeing if anyone had recorded the "technical difficulties" screens and audio. I'm not necessarily sure if anyone would have...

Well we've at least solved the mystery.

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Feb 12, 2018 22:34:39 GMT Terry the Cat and lilyofthevalley like this

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Post by Happy Brian on Feb 12, 2018 22:34:39 GMT

Feb 12, 2018 21:43:21 GMT Terry the Cat said:

Feb 12, 2018 19:48:25 GMT lilyofthevalley said:

I didn't say it needed to be found. I only suggested seeing if anyone had recorded the "technical difficulties" screens and audio. I'm not necessarily sure if anyone would have...

Well we've at least solved the mystery.

Yeah, I think we can safely say at this point that the Nickelodeon Australia outrage happened on the Foxtel services sometime in 2013 in Melbourne, Australia. I'm not sure if finding footage or audio of the incident is necessary, especially since we solved the mystery at this point.

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Feb 13, 2018 0:46:56 GMT

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Post by lilyofthevalley on Feb 13, 2018 0:46:56 GMT

Feb 12, 2018 22:34:39 GMT Happy Brian said:

Feb 12, 2018 21:43:21 GMT Terry the Cat said:

Well we've at least solved the mystery.

Yeah, I think we can safely say at this point that the Nickelodeon Australia outrage happened on the Foxtel services sometime in 2013 in Melbourne, Australia. I'm not sure if finding footage or audio of the incident is necessary, especially since we solved the mystery at this point.

Okay that makes sense. But now what? Do we have this moved to found media? Should the information on the Nickelodeon Australia-Wikipedia page and the Nickelodeon Australia-Nickpedia page be changed?

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Nickelodeon Australia (Major Programming Outage) Feb 13, 2018 2:02:30 GMT lilyofthevalley likes this

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Post by LetDown on Feb 13, 2018 2:02:30 GMT

At this point, while we reasonably hypothesized how this happened, it doesn't mean that the media itself is found or how it happened is 100% confirmed. It's kinda like if we reasonably concluded that Clock Man aired on Pinwheel and ended the search then. When OP made this thread (what ever happened to OP anyway?) they intended to find the bumper itself, which once it is found then the search is completely done. If finding this footage is worth searching for is up to the community, it might not be given the bumper itself doesn't have much importance or excitement behind the mystery of it. But people might still be interested, who knows. I'm just at ease that the mystery of it is most likely explainable now.

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