Chaos as ITV dramatically disappears off air leaving viewers baffled

ITV News was plunged into chaos on Monday as the channel dramatically disappeared off the air leaving viewers baffled.

The broadcaster was forced to issue a grovelling apology after its local news segments were interrupted.

Viewers flooded social media earlier in the evening with reports that when they tried to watch the regional news they were met with simply an ITV logo bouncing across the screen in scenes reminiscent of the days of DVDs. 

According to reports, the regional channels were down for around half an hour before jumping back in to action to air a re-run of The Chase. 

In one clip shared by a viewer, a presenter was heard saying: ‘Apologies to some of you who may have had an issue during the regional news a few moments ago.’

By 8pm, normal scheduling appeared to resume with ITV confirming the news programmes would be available on demand. 

ITV addressed the outage on social media as they wrote: ‘Unfortunately we are currently experiencing difficulties with transmission associated with a central ITV outage across the UK. 

‘Our programme will be uploaded to our website as soon as possible which will provide our coverage of the day’s news here in the Channel Islands.’

ITV Granada took to their account on X, formerly Twitter, to apologise to viewers after the feed was interrupted. 

‘Apologies to viewers tuning in for our bulletin this evening – ITV has been experiencing technical problems and is working hard to fix the technical issues,’ they wrote.

Explaining the situation where they live, fans said: ‘It went in the west country for 60 seconds at most. They did apologise before main news and before the chase for the issue. Had to re watch on +1 as I didn’t notice the first time,’;

‘Just showing this, then suddenly cut into the chase celebrity special,’; ‘Itv granada not even showing a region logo, most boring region for breakdowns,’;

‘Meridian was off air from 6.30 until 7,’; ‘They must still be having problems as both sets of adverts have just been for programmes being shown on ITV,’;

‘What’s caused all the Technical Difficulties this evening on Itv 1 and did affect the itv channels,’; 

‘Looks like a full network breakdown on @ITV1 with no regional news bulletins across the whole of the UK including @GranadaReports, and with them unable to return back to national for @ITVNews. Anyone working in the Control Room this Easter Bank Holiday?’;

The regional channels that were off air included ITV Granada, Yorkshire, County Down, West Country, Tyne Tees, Meridian and Cymru. 

‘We didnt receive the news for ITV London. It was stuck on ITV1 then cut off to the weather,’;

‘@Ofcom I am being asked what trouble shooting I have done for a national network not broadcasting anything other than the screen grabs in earlier posts for 30 minutes. I’m stunned at the lack of awareness of the @ITV staff in the control rooms,’;

‘I’m glad it wasn’t just my TV playing up! Even changed the channel and went back and it was still there,’;

‘I was on YouTube when it started (I went on during the Tipping Point Lucky Stars repeat) then was greeted by that the moment I returned to linear TV,’;

‘No way! Mine too hence the “Bouncing DVD Style ITV logo” which I described. It even tried to pull the same stunt during one of the ad breaks for The Chase,’;

‘Yeah before the Chase it was ITV regional news and then the Mayne evening news, but we didn’t even get the evening news because they messed something up and all we got was silence and the ITV letters on screen,’; 

‘What’s happened to ITV? They’re broadcasting a floating logo for ITV Westcountry instead of the evening news.’