Aunty goes down again: triple j goes silent due to “massive” transmission problems

triple j has suffered serious transmission issues for the second time in six months, with Richard Kingsmill‘s ‘2018’ Sunday night show going completely silent yesterday evening for a short time.

Shortly after 8pm yesterday the government’s youth broadcaster went entirely silent across the nation, with host Kingsmill revealing on twitter that the station had blown a router.

“People smarter than me are trying to fix the massive transmission probs that some of you are now hearing.”

Apologies. We've blown a router. If I knew what one was, I would try to build it. But smarter people than me are trying to fix the massive transmission probs that some of you are now hearing.

— Richard Kingsmill (@triplejtheking) April 8, 2018

This prompted some hilarious responses from listeners.

So we’re not being invaded by Daleks? That’s a relief.

— Simon Evans (@Se77Evans) April 8, 2018

I thought i was listening to some new aphex twin

— Edmund Griffin (@EdmundGriffin) April 8, 2018

You mean no more EDM Bangas? I migrate to @doublej a long time ago.

— Ben Cove (@BenCoveSC) April 8, 2018

Later on, Kingsmill tweeted again for a show of hands, “how many of you can hear me at the moment?” and copped some more jokes for his trouble

richard this is twitter

— Client-side Validation (@smidgey) April 8, 2018

In October last year triple j went down for around an hour during their Friday morning ‘Like A Version’ broadcast due to technical issues.