CNN’s Signal Goes Down for Nearly 30 Minutes: ‘Sorry for the Interruption’
Technical issues interrupted CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash for about 25 minutes on Monday.
Anyone tuning in to CNN from 12:05 to about 12:29 p.m. may have encountered a pixelated screen.
Media reporter Brian Stelter posted Bash’s response at about 12:51 p.m., once the broadcast was back up.
“Welcome back and we ARE back,” Bash said. “There was a technical issue across Warner Bros. Discovery’s channels that resulted in losing our signal. We’re very sorry for the interruption.”
As the 1:00 p.m. hour got underway, CNN News Central anchor Brianna Keilar also acknowledged the snafu.
“Welcome back. And we are back,” Keilar said, repeating Bash. “There was a technical issue across Warner Bros. Discovery’s channels that resulted in losing our signal. We are certainly sorry for the interruption. Let’s get back now to the breaking news.”
Stelter wrote on CNN.com, “A technical issue across Warner Bros. Discovery’s channels disrupted CNN, HBO and other channels during the noon hour on the East Coast on Monday.”
CNN viewers saw scrambled screens and pixelated chaos, leading some to search social media for information about the outage.
A spokesperson called it a “technical issue across Warner Bros. Discovery,” CNN’s parent company, which also operates TNT, TBS and other channels.
The disruption apparently started shortly after 12 p.m. Eastern. On CNN, which was airing an “Inside Politics” panel on President Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada, the screen seemed to freeze and then glitch into pixelated blocks of color and fragmented on-air imagery.
Viewers may have experienced different impacts depending on the distribution platform they use.
This is a breaking story and has been updated.
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