Why is Sky News off air?

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SKY News has been thrown into chaos this morning amid a mass global IT outage.

The channel’s usual live morning programme is not on-air and replaced by a documentary leaving many viewers puzzled.

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Sky News now a blank screen with a message reading: “We apologise for the interuption to this broadcast.

“We hope to restore the transmission of Sky News shortly.”

Similar issues have affected broadcasters in Australia too.

It all comes as a huge IT outage struck companies across the world on Friday, seemingly linked to an error on Microsoft Windows machines.

It’s not thought the issue is linked to a hack attack.

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