Thousands Left Unable to Watch Sky TV as Service Suffers Huge Outage
- Thousands of Sky TV customers in the UK and Ireland experienced a major service outage beginning around 10pm on May 15, 2025.
- The outage followed widespread reports of Sky TV boxes showing connectivity errors despite users having stable internet connections, suggesting a problem on Sky's end.
- Reports peaked with over 33,000 outages on Downdetector, mainly from cities including London, Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, Limerick, and Cork, and primarily affecting TV services.
- One customer reported seeing a message indicating they were unable to access TV because of a connectivity issue, while 87% of the problem reports involved Sky TV, and approximately 8% described complete service blackouts.
- The outage disrupted major viewing events such as Eurovision and highlighted vulnerabilities in Sky’s TV service, although Sky had not acknowledged any issues at the time.
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