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Freeview Outage Report in Preston, Lancashire, 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 Preston, England

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

Freeview Outage Chart in Preston, Lancashire, England 03/21/2026 21:30

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. TV (90%)

    TV (90%)

  2. Total Blackout (7%)

    Total Blackout (7%)

  3. Internet (1%)

    Internet (1%)

  4. Wi-fi (1%)

    Wi-fi (1%)

  5. E-mail (1%)

    E-mail (1%)

  6. Phone (1%)

    Phone (1%)

Live Outage Map Near Preston, Lancashire, England

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Southport and Blackburn.

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomSouthport Internet
United KingdomBlackburn TV
United KingdomBlackburn Phone
United KingdomBlackburn TV
United KingdomBlackburn TV
United KingdomPoulton-le-Fylde TV

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Preston, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Preston 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!!

  • groovicat groovicat 💚 (@groovicat) reported from Adlington, England

    @Sillyshib Heartbeat, ssshhh, it's never been off. You can watch Heartbeat every day on freeview

  • iainsykes2014 Iain Sykes (@iainsykes2014) reported from Blackburn, England

    @KarmaUnc @GMB @joshwiddicombe Yes, but the BBC is a significant contributor to Arquiva who own the masts. They also support Freeview and Freesat.

  • johnworthy27 john worthington (@johnworthy27) reported from Preston, England

    @chloesammike @andywigmore @KayBurley Don't worry you can still get Sky news on channel 132 on your Freeview box. Thick ****.....

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • BarbaraBone3 Barbara Bone (@BarbaraBone3) reported

    @JamiePa79580833 @juneslater17 Oh that's why my broadband is crap - better get rid of the cat if her chip's interfering with the signal. Is that why sometimes I can get Freeview & other times it tells me ITV, Channel 4... don't exist?

  • MGilani57809 M C Gilani (@MGilani57809) reported

    IdealWorld TV selling junk on Freeview channel 51 and Sky UK 668 Someone should report this lot for lying live on air the stuff they say is sold out still appears on the website plus selling overpriced crappy watches absolutely terrible

  • KtodayU83406 theUKtoday (@KtodayU83406) reported

    It's pretty obvious that somebody some corporation has brought out most of the movie channels that we get on Freeview because they're just filling them up with 60 70 and 80 year old crap Western and war movies that no one wants to watch. The advertisers can't be doing very well

  • KanailadRm Ray (@KanailadRm) reported from Harlow District, England

    @currys your harlow store is staffed by complete ********* waited over 40 minutes after someone said i i would get help as I needed a tv with built in freeview, they had no ******* clue after 40 minutes I went to @Argos_Online and got one

  • WestBromEL Liquid *** (@WestBromEL) reported

    Help required please! Which Freeview channel is repeating episodes of Sherlock? 🔎

  • Jura_sik Blammachinehead (@Jura_sik) reported

    @AmazonHelp hi. I have a fire tv with the latest firmware. It keeps going to a blank screen when watching freeview. I have already contacted you by phone to report this issue, with no result. On the help forums there is a number of people with the same issue.

  • fussyMcWhiskers McWhiskers (@fussyMcWhiskers) reported

    @TavernHoyden I have freeview now But when I had Virgin - one of their old boxes I had had an ariel jackplug in it so whenever Virgin TV went down it would automatically switch to the freeview aerial - back then Virgin rarely went down though

  • cslcarlo carlito (@cslcarlo) reported

    @Suffragent_ @kehinde_andrews @GMB THE **** OF ITV. STOP WATCHING THIS CRAP. CHANNEL 236 ON FREEVIEW IS BY FAR NOT FAKE LIKE THESE LOT.

  • StarWarsJ55 J (@StarWarsJ55) reported

    @il0venostalgia The 80's wasn't bogged down with genres,and internet made people less experimental. Further music got away from 92,everything had been done really! Need to bring back music to Freeview,not all stuck on the net!

  • daryl_millar Daryl Millar (@daryl_millar) reported

    Is anyone else having trouble with BBC SD channels on Freeview?