Moment TV network mysteriously stops working

Viewers were left stunned when the national news broadcaster was affected by a major outage on Monday.

Viewers have been left scratching their heads after ABC News suddenly cut out midway through a bulletin.

The visual switched to a basic landscape image at about 11.25am on Monday with the message: “ABC News will return to scheduled programming shortly”.

The broadcast was down for about eight minutes, sparking concern among viewers.

“Channel 24 has died??? Not a good look,” one person wrote on social media.

More than two dozen people flagged the blackout on the website Down Detector as commencing at 11.22am.

Anyone who tuned in for the news during the eight-minute-long outage period was treated to images of the Australian landscape.

ABC News stopped working on Monday morning.

When the bulletin returned, a weather forecaster was completing his outlook for the day.

“Staying fine,” he concluded, before the program continued into the news headlines.

ABC host Gemma Veness issued an apology to viewers affected by the mysterious interruption.

“We want to apologise here for some of those technical difficulties which affected our news bulletin, it’s good to have you back with us,” she told viewers.

A spokesperson for the ABC said the outage had been caused by a “brief interruption in the connection between our studios and presentation service”.

They said the feed was “quickly restored”.

ABC 24 programming has since resumed as normal.

Originally published as Moment TV network mysteriously stops working