Major failure on Viacom services

All MTV and Paramount channels are currently off air.

tmf as well

Seeing as they are run by the same company (Viacom), it's probabally some fault there. It's notable that the Nickelodeon channels are still on air though. There's a caption on TMF though. A plain blue screen with the writing " There is a Fault. Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible" with a voiceover repeating that over and over. All the others are blank (except paramount which is showing something odd).

TMF is an MTV channel.

Yup, I remember that message (on TMF at the moment) when Sky News went down. Oh dear!

MTV's website is also down (www.mtv.co.uk)

as is www.vh1.co.uk and www.paramountcomedy.co.uk

The MTV channels (inc TMF) are showing a "no satellite signal" message whereas the Paramount channels have a downlinked feed, but no video input.

Apparently (according to a poster on DS) it's affecting all European MTV channels.

Looks like a major failure at Viacom's operation. The blue caption is presumably on Freeview - where the Crown Castle encoder will have a caption it can put up if it loses its input signal...

A bit of activity on TMF (Freeview) there. The error message was breaking up and had black lines over it.

I didn't realise how centralised these services are, so it looks like all MTV european services are uplinked from London and distributed via satellite!