(Editor’s note: TVTech reached out to several station groups to determine the impact of the CrowdStrike outage on operations. Many, including NextStar Media Group, News-Press & Gazette, Allen Media Group and PBS, reported the glitch had no effect; a few declined to comment. Operations and risk management executives from E.W. Scripps however, did respond.)
The CrowdStrike cybersecurity glitch, which one security expert has dubbed “the largest IT outage in history,” brought Microsoft Windows systems at airlines, financial institutions, hospitals and some in media to a grinding halt, at least for a time July 19, with the Blue Screen of Death (BSoD).
