Streaming Hell: YouTube TV Crashed Last Night. Here's What Happened. Those who have gotten rid of cable and switched to a vMVPD service do so with the expectation that the service will be reliable. However, one of those services suffered an outage on Tuesday night. Those who have gotten rid of cable and switched to a vMVPD service do so with the expectation that the service will be reliable. However, one of those services suffered an outage on Tuesday night. YouTube TV crashed on Tuesday night, per the website Down Detector. The site’s graph listed the peak of the outage at 11:18 p.m. on Tuesday, although the outage appeared to have been resolved within hours.