ESPN's SportsCenter is rocked by MASSIVE Microsoft outage as cable giant is forced to replace iconic morning program with a radio show

ESPN's SportsCenter is nan latest unfortunate of Friday's Microsoft outage – nan aforesaid bug that collapsed Sky Sports successful nan UK, nan Sphere successful Las Vegas, and summons income for awesome Premier League clubs specified arsenic Manchester United.

Instead of The World Wide Leader's emblematic greeting programming, some ESPN and ESPN 2 aired ESPN Radio's Unsportsmanlike pinch Freddie Coleman and Courtney Cronin.

On X, Cronin wrote that her and her co-host would beryllium occupying ESPN's airwaves 'for astatine slightest nan adjacent hour.'

However, SportsCenter remained disconnected nan aerial much than an hr aft Cronin's 7am EST station connected X.

ESPN spokespeople did not instantly respond to DailyMail.com's petition for comment.

Sky Sports News collapsed connected Friday successful nan UK greeting aft nan awesome tech failure, pinch nan outage sparking chaos crossed nan world.

Hospitals, train services, banks, banal exchanges and TV channels were each knocked offline successful nan UK.

Manchester United had been readying to commencement trading tickets up of nan caller Premier League season, but their ticketing website was unavailable, pinch income initially postponed until midday earlier later being rescheduled for 10am connected Monday.

A connection from nan Official Manchester United Matchday relationship read: 'Unfortunately, owed to a world Microsoft Servers outage which is affecting galore systems, including ours, this morning's summons merchandise will beryllium postponed until midday.

This incident is not considered a hacking attack.

'This is not a information incident aliases cyberattack. The rumor has been identified, isolated and a hole has been deployed,' Cybersecurity patient Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz said successful a station connected societal media. 

Crowdstrike has produced a solution for nan issue, Kurtz said. 

Similarly, Microsoft claims to person fixed nan underlying rumor that impacted nan company's package crossed a number of platforms.