YouTube TV, which has grown into one of the largest pay-TV providers in the U.S., said early Thursday it was “back to normal” after an outage interrupted the final minutes of an NBA playoff game.
The outage occurred during TNT’s broadcast of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics, which Miami won, 123-116.
Instead of the game, many frustrated viewers on Twitter reported seeing a commercial for The Little Mermaid play repeatedly.
In the last of a series of tweets Wednesday night into early Thursday, YouTube said it was “back to normal so you should be able to enjoy your fav content without any issues now – thank you so much for understanding.” It had previously noted that other networks were affected by the issue, but the tune-in for the Heat-Celtics series made the glitch more conspicuous.
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