US EditionThousands 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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Sky TV is down after major outage left 30,000 users without access to shows
Some people are struggling to get online too (Picture: Getty) Sky TV remains down for thousands of customers after an outage left tens of thousands unable to watch shows. People began reporting issues with the satellite television service just before 9pm, according to outage tracker Downdetector. Only an hour and a half later, nearly 30,000 people were having problems with Sky. Most Sky TV users said they were struggling to watch live shows as i…
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