Freeview outages and service status in South Shields, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in South Shields, England

The chart below shows the number of Freeview reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in South Shields, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

Live Outage Map Near South Shields, England

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: North Shields, Seaham, Sunderland, and Newcastle upon Tyne.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
North Shields	TV	27 days ago
Seaham	TV	2 months ago
Sunderland	TV	2 months ago
Newcastle upon Tyne	TV	2 months ago
Gateshead	TV	2 months ago
Gateshead	TV	2 months ago

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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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  JR (@JonnyRoLi) reported 15 minutes ago 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 17 minutes ago 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

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  Nicola (@aquablu) reported 26 minutes ago 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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  Gerry Carpenter (@GerryCarpenter3) reported 28 minutes ago 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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  Christine Scott (@Christi34653250) reported 30 minutes ago 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

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  TheMrsButcher (@Teldeb) reported 13 minutes ago

  @skytv got email survey re sky glass TV. Started it, but 2 long & tedious Basically love the TV, not the service Overcharged Netflix on 1st payment, never refunded despite promised Freeview much easier to use Freeview TV listings better - We're not interested in Sky channels

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  Chimera (@ChimeraX2021) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Oxford_Life @Watto_T @willguyatt There has never been any 4K content on Freeview.

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  Susie Burton 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@SusieWBmeme) reported 16 minutes ago

  My elderly, widowed neighbour struggles to navigate Freeview. Her smart TV supports Netflix, Prime, Sky, but even if she could afford those platforms, she would be terrified of touching a different button on the remote. She sleeps very little and the TV is her only companion. If she can’t return to her familiar menu, she panics. I’ve had desperate calls from her in the evening, petrified that she’s ‘broken’ her TV. She never has, but her swollen arthritic fingers struggle with the tiny, spongy remote buttons. It’s heartbreaking 🥹. The @LabourParty DO NOT GIVE A **** about the vulnerable and elderly. I honestly believe they’re building to a ‘Logan’s Run’ style of totalitarian State 🤬

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  x (@sk_tony) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Selene_Mariposa The law says you need to be covered by a TV Licence to: watch or record TV on any channel - via any TV service (e.g. Sky or Freeview) or watch TV live on any streaming service On any device. You can opt out n if you don’t do the above. So it is not a tax for simply owning a TV

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  Graham (@Greyadder) reported 17 minutes ago

  Is anyone else getting problems with their Freeview television channels? It says no signal available could it be sunshine or the heat doing that?

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  'darnstadium' (@darnstadium) reported 17 minutes ago

  There's an interesting problem here. Switching off Freeview would make spectrum available for 5/6G, but at the (enormous) cost of putting all that bandwidth on existing connections. Not least all the perfectly good non-smart TVs that would become E-waste overnight.

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  Carol Jane (@hebe_jane) reported 22 minutes ago

  @BigNGandBertie @sleafordmods I bought a Firestick for around £25. All the Freeview channels are available without Prime. The ITV app is incredibly slow and glitchy through my set top box/DVR, but works well on the Firestick.

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  St.Grumpy (@swerve_dec) reported 26 minutes ago

  Only positive out of tonight is we were that **** on freeview so everyone has seen how bad we are, it is a good thing because now the hierarchy can't ignore that we may need to re-evaluate our transfer strategy #nffc

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  laura (@hudsonlc6) reported 27 minutes ago

  freely the best freeview out there. needs the Internet to watch tv but then doesnt connect to the internet and when it does connect, the tv doesnt work. 6 months I've had this tv and this **** doesnt work

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  BrendanB (@Brendan80704486) reported 29 minutes ago

  @superTV247 Simple answer of course would just be to let viewers decide and make the tv licence voluntary. If people want the BBC they will pay for it. The licence is a poll tax - the poorest and the richest pay the same - and very regressive. Why force the poor to pay to watch freeview tv