Freeview Outage Report in South Shields, South Tyneside, England
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Freeview is the United Kingdom's digital terrestrial television platform. It is operated by DTV Services Ltd, a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky and transmitter operator Arqiva.
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The chart below shows the number of Freeview reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in South Shields and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Freeview users through our website.
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TV (92%)
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Total Blackout (4%)
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Internet (1%)
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Wi-fi (1%)
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E-mail (1%)
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Live Outage Map Near South Shields, South Tyneside, England
The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Sunderland, Newcastle upon Tyne, Chester-le-Street and Blyth.
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Sunderland |
TV | |
| Newcastle upon Tyne |
TV | |
| Newcastle upon Tyne |
TV | |
| Chester-le-Street |
TV | |
| Blyth |
TV | |
| Blaydon-on-Tyne |
TV |
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Freeview Issues Reports Near South Shields, England
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in South Shields and nearby locations:
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Christine Scott
(@Christi34653250) reported
from
Longbenton, England
@ITVX I wish I could or that Freeview took on this network a lot of us on pensions can't afford satalite or cable
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Gerry Carpenter
(@GerryCarpenter3) reported
from
Sunderland, England
@Claire_Pickard @sueashton3000 Many residents in Sunderland & along the Durham Coast also receive Freeview Channels from the Bilsdale transmitter. The fire is also likely to have knocked out about 30 relay stations, which "feed" on signals from Bilsdale. I wouldn't like to climb up the transmitter to fix it!
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Nicola
(@aquablu) reported
from
Whitley Bay, England
If we're in lock down for another 3 weeks, I really feel the #sonyChristmasChannel should be put back on #freeview...Will keep people in the house ( okay, it'll easily keep me in the house🎅🤶🌲
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JR
(@JonnyRoLi) reported
from
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
@Fern_McGovern @SIofting @jckhth Nope. You can pay for a better service. Just as you can have Freeview TV, standard channels, most in standard definition but functional, or you can pay more for Netflix/Amazon/etc, Sky or BT with movies and sport in HD. Same principle applies.
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Adam Widdrington
(@AddingRandomWit) reported
from
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
@bigpapablu @itvfootball I don’t have a sky or freeview box! I stream everything and have very good internet so it’s never an issue haha
Freeview Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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aaron allaby
(@aaroneh09) reported
NHL Center Ice from BELL must be on Freeview for the holiday season. i never ordered it. sounds good to me.
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Gary Finney Zair
(@finneyzair) reported
@Dis_PPL_Protest Part of the BBC licence fee helps to maintain the freeview service.
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Popeye
(@PopeyeFreeview) reported
Freeview changes on Tuesday 13th January 2026 Freeview channel 12 TLC Freeview channel 17 Quest Freeview channel 44 Really DMAX,QUEST RED AND FOOD NETWORK QUEST+1 are not moving TLC+1 launch on Freeview not sure yet.
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ciara! :)
(@0nthewr0ngway) reported
was going to watch the linguini incident last night but it wasn't on any streaming... however it is live on freeview rn so hopefully it is on catchup so that I can watch it tomorrow... let me be lucky 🙏🙏 nighty night all
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SabrinaEvans01
(@sabrina777z) reported
@stephen2876 @NotFarLeftAtAll Because those that can't afford Netflix or Prime or Disney have zero choice but to watch Freeview style TV and most of that is repeats from 70s/80/90etc so BBC and ITV are bad but they are less likely to be repeats.
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Stevio
(@Rothbury01669) reported
@Jo2901TF @elementalvenus I have a 63 year old child who couldn't live without it - I have Sky Q so it works seamlessly with a second TV without wires so I do like it for that, plus our TV signal is very bad where we live. We can only get the BBC channels on DAB radio and our freeview doesn't have things like GB News on it as we only get the main 30 or so channels as we're on a small transmitter. We can't even get Classic FM on DAB or FM
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Poshsimon :)
(@poshsimon) reported
@LGUKCare The challenges on this LG TV are many: no freeview play or freely, the horrible remote control is difficult to use, the difficulty switching sources, popups appear for no apparent reason to do something, etc #Fail @lguk @johnlewishelp
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Richard Bartlett
(@Bartlet27722793) reported
@GhostOfCorkey @DeathlyAcorn @KayBurley It was the case that radio rights came with the combined TV licence. But not anymore, except perhaps if you only listen to the radio via FreeView, satellite or cable. TVLicensing confirms this in their FAQs. What is better than BBC that you do watch please? Or just nothing live and never BBC, not even on-demand/catch-up?? --Genuinely interested.
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Mark J.
(@iammarkjjackson) reported
@ThatsTVOfficial Great. You have to rely on the old classics due to most of the Freeview Channels being such crap
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Tuftenstein
(@Tuftenstein) reported
@SkinTrader2 That's one that I've never seen, but I think it's showing on one of the Freeview channels this week, so I'll set the Betamax.📺💀