Technical problems
ZDF problem resolved after several hours
ZDF’s online offering was not available in many places.
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There was a major technical disruption at ZDF. That’s why the station’s media library was unavailable for several hours.
Especially when it comes to the online offering ZDF experienced a major disruption on September 14th. The station no longer had an internet connection. “heute journal” presenter Christian Sievers (54) reports how this could happen.
What happened at ZDF?
Today, Thursday, September 14th, there was a “technical disruption to the internet connection” around 1:00 p.m., ZDF confirmed in a statement. As a result, the station’s media library and the “ZDFheute” online offering were only accessible to a limited extent or were no longer accessible in many places. After several hours, the problem was resolved and the station’s offers and apps could be accessed as usual again early on Thursday evening.
However, the whole thing had almost no impact on ZDF broadcasting operations. Instead of the “ZDF lunchtime magazine,” an excerpt from the “plan b” magazine was broadcast for around seven minutes. After that, the lunch format could be shown as normal. The evening before, “People Today” was omitted. However, there are no restrictions for the station’s evening program.
The children’s channel KiKA was also affected. At lunchtime, viewers were unable to receive the channel via DVB for an hour. At times there were also disruptions to ZDF programs “via DVB-T2, some cable networks and third-party platforms”.
Why was there the ZDF failure?
ZDF did not disclose the reason for the failure. Sievers reported late at noon but via platform X (formerly Twitter) to have their say. “Construction work in Mainz has cut off ZDF main lines and various other things,” wrote the moderator. As an update he gave “technicians have been informed”. He asked himself the question: “Let’s see how we send it later…”