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Freeview Outage Report in Preston, Lancashire, England

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Users are reporting problems related to: tv and total blackout.

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 12/07/2025 06:35

December 07: Problems at Freeview

Freeview is having issues since 11:00 AM GMT. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!

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 (6%)

    Total Blackout (6%)

  3. Phone (1%)

    Phone (1%)

  4. Internet (1%)

    Internet (1%)

  5. Wi-fi (1%)

    Wi-fi (1%)

  6. E-mail (1%)

    E-mail (1%)

Live Outage Map Near Preston, Lancashire, England

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Blackburn, Poulton-le-Fylde, Preston, Ormskirk and Longridge.

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomBlackburn TV
United KingdomPoulton-le-Fylde TV
United KingdomBlackburn TV
United KingdomPreston TV
United KingdomOrmskirk TV
United KingdomBlackburn TV

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Preston, England

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

  • 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 ****.....

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

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

  • 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!!

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • danmo117 Dan (@danmo117) reported

    @addicted2newz Their YT channel is the only way I can watch because the freeview quality is so poor. In HD on YT 👌🏻

  • Wood1760Steve J Steed (@Wood1760Steve) reported

    @FreeviewTV hi Freeview Thunderstorm yesterday, electric went off After coming back on I'd list most of the channels I have i remaining I've tried to auto tune and keep getting same 8 channels How can it be fixed, your help line is not too good, it cuts out?

  • jamgyal Dan (@jamgyal) reported

    @liisa_agren @bbcproms @BBC It’s closed down on Freeview. I’ve got the option to cast it from the phone instead.)

  • LJ_blitz 💀 サンダーブリッツ 💥 (@LJ_blitz) reported

    @DukeHollyrood @Inside_TheRopes As far as I've seen, @peacockTV is basically a free add-on, not a self-contained broadcasting network, so it'll likely be available alongside current networks, either as an additional service alongside a major network, a free service (similar to Freeview), or both.

  • MatthewKing35 Matthew King (@MatthewKing35) reported from Southampton, England

    @jonny_b_badde @Nigel_Farage Don’t need to I haven’t watch @GBNEWS since it started I could ether watch on Freeview 236 or virgin 626 but done nether except I watch 50 seconds 25 on Freeview picture and sound was crap 💩 and virgin picture and sounds was very good but channel is bollocks all time crap 💩

  • Bitch88935403 ***** (@Bitch88935403) reported

    i want to able to watch channel hopping when it comes out so bad. curse freeview

  • JimGilroy Jim ⚫️🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 💙 (@JimGilroy) reported

    Wow! This thunderstorm is still doing it’s rounds. It’s even knocked our tv arial and satellite out. No signal on Freeview or Freesat. Thankfully I have a tv stick and an internet connection still.

  • mattystan1972 Matt Stanley (@mattystan1972) reported

    @amazonfiretv Just done an update. Now my tv is stuck on Home Screen. Can’t watch freeview tv, change input. Can only watch Netflix prime and Disney. No freeview no PlayStation. Help.

  • B260Eb EB B260 (@B260Eb) reported

    @AnnSkelly3 I've been with Talktalk for years, never had a problem. Only thing with Virgin is you don't get your freeview channels on your TV. Woman I work for got changed over to them and now can't get the channels she watches

  • SueWhitaker11 Sue Whitaker (@SueWhitaker11) reported

    @lenatrobins @Ursie27608090 Thanks ***, but it's not a retune issue. My Humax box does those automatically. 6% of the UK doesn't get GBNEWS on Freeview, & Buxton is amongst them 😬.