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Freeview Outage Report in Southport, Sefton, 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.

Problems in the last 24 hours in Southport, England

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

Freeview Outage Chart in Southport, Sefton, England 01/17/2026 20:30

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Freeview users through our website.

  1. TV (92%)

    TV (92%)

  2. Total Blackout (4%)

    Total Blackout (4%)

  3. Internet (1%)

    Internet (1%)

  4. Wi-fi (1%)

    Wi-fi (1%)

  5. Phone (1%)

    Phone (1%)

  6. E-mail (1%)

    E-mail (1%)

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Southport, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Southport and nearby locations:

  • Robbo72uk Andy Roberts (@Robbo72uk) reported from Southport, England

    Virgin tv and broadband gone down yet again. Resorting to Freeview right now. The picture quality is actually much better than Virgin...AND no glitches and constant picture breakup!!

  • richard__webb Richard Webb (@richard__webb) reported from Saint Annes on the Sea, England

    @GBNEWS i was so looking forward to it. But… on freeview the picture quality is really poor, sound is out of sync, and just feels like the sets are dark and badly lit. Took my focus away from listening to whats being projected. #GBNews

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • deirdrethompson deirdre thompson (@deirdrethompson) reported

    @KayBurley @BBCRadio4 Really..I've had to cancel my sky subscription as I could no longer afford it..I now rely on freeview..how very "80's" of me

  • edstub207 Eddie Stubbington (@edstub207) reported

    Sky forces you to have a specific bundle with some packages and says "You get 300 Channels for £25 a month" meanwhile Freeview has 170 of them already & most of the new ones are garbage like Poker TV and some random news channels.

  • EdScottLondon Ed Scott (@EdScottLondon) reported

    @paincave1 I don’t worry for the bbc or the government. There are a lot of issues - the license fee is an outdated way of finding it when it is totally impossible to force people. Subs won’t work with Freeview. Only option is directly fund it out of our taxes.

  • empire24453 EmpireKicking (@empire24453) reported

    @arqiva Around Saltburn location and not receiving any Freeview TV signals, Is it down again..? Bilsdale temporary tower would be the nearest. It's been 48 hours since down.

  • MadMitch1929 MadMitch (@MadMitch1929) reported

    @YesterdayTweets Who cares. Freeview is just a joke now. Having to retune every other month is causing great problems for the elderly.

  • SimplyMetric Kevin Hall 🇪🇺 (@SimplyMetric) reported

    @miffythegamer Basically a crap YouTube channel on Freeview. His Mam will be it’s one viewer.

  • Stephowd Stephanie Howard (@Stephowd) reported

    @LordFrodsham @HackedOffHugh A surprising number of people in this discussion don’t seen to be aware that the license fee doesn’t just cover the BBC but 70 Freeview channels & all radio. Anyone who doesn’t want to pay the fee can disconnect their TV, watch Sky Sport down the pub and Netflix on their computer

  • blogmywiki Giles Booth (@blogmywiki) reported

    I think the Freeview MUXes are trolling me. I can now get BBC Three in HD, but can't receive BBC Four HD at all. (I know why this is, I'm just not prepared to 'do a Rod Hull' to fix my aerial.)

  • Takethatjoe Gerald Smith 🤢 (@Takethatjoe) reported

    @Ange_9_ @darrengrimes_ So you think advertising is going to raise an extra £3.7 billion? The BBC share maintenance of freeview, freeview is the biggest digital platform and you casually say they’ll go subscription, not everyone has a fast reliable broadband service and you’re assuming millions

  • ggnewed Ash #BlackLivesMatter (@ggnewed) reported

    I don't watch Emmerdale any more, but I do like the terse episode summaries they put up on freeview. "Marlon bodypops. Something is loud. Terrible smell at the pub."