Scottish TV are having a few problems of their own - most of their last ad break in WWTBM had massive picture problems. There was then a gap of about 10 seconds before they presumably switched to another server (or however those things work...)
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!
I don't think it's a problem with the satellite feed as the websites are also kaput.