Global tech outage affects ABC12 newscasts
Posted on AllSides July 19th, 2024
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The software problem reported by CrowdStrike knocked out several critical systems required to produce and present newscasts on ABC12. They include the scripts, video and studio camera shots that you see on air. ABC12 was forced to cancel the morning newscasts, Good Morning Mid-Michigan and the ABC12 News Hour at Noon due to the technology outages. Live newscasts will return with ABC12 First at Four, ABC12 News at Five and ABC12 News at Six on Friday. However, the newscasts will have a different look with limited camera shots in studio...
