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Freeview Outage Report in Preston, Lancashire, England

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The latest reports from users having issues in Preston come from postal codes PR1.

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 11/17/2025 14:10

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Most Reported Problems

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

  1. TV (91%)

    TV (91%)

  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 (%)

    E-mail (%)

Live Outage Map Near Preston, Lancashire, England

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Blackburn, Preston, Ormskirk, Longridge and Lytham St Annes.

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City Problem Type Report Time
United KingdomBlackburn TV
United KingdomPreston TV
United KingdomOrmskirk TV
United KingdomBlackburn TV
United KingdomBlackburn TV
United KingdomLongridge 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:

  • Stephen_Neal Stephen Neal (@Stephen_Neal) reported

    @simonhardwick Not sure Freeview update-over-DVB-T updates happen any more do they? The DTG closed that service a while back (it's now IP or USB update only?)

  • nocturnalmonkey Sam Hardacre 🇪🇺 (@nocturnalmonkey) reported

    When you’re in a hotel room with just freeview you realise how **** terrestrial TV is these days

  • AlisonK91305178 Alison Kay (@AlisonK91305178) reported

    @bookyblonde @skytv @TalkingPicsTV Me neither, I've got an old sky box and that still gets tptv, definitely not upgrading, if anything goes wrong with my box, I shall be getting a freeview box instead, it's on there, been a customer for over 25 years, definitely can't do without tptv

  • Matth9999 Matthew (@Matth9999) reported

    @JuliaLopezMP I was going to gripe about the iniquity of Jury service, where those who hate the idea are press ganged into it on pain of a £1000 fine, but on seeing your position.... Freeview has an expiry date, the 2038 Linux bug - specifying as UNSIGNED format would solve

  • ChiefScrobbler Chief Scrobbler ✝️ (@ChiefScrobbler) reported

    The 2005 film 'Kingdom of Heaven' is currently on Freeview ch33. The times I've seen this but never in its entirety! I always seem to find it by accident and end up watching a big chunk of it.

  • FactsStomp Phil's Train and Retro Life (@FactsStomp) reported

    Watching a DVD-R of Quatermass 2 recorded on my DVD recorder way back in 2006 connected via scart to my Freeview box... and it looks, errm 'poor' MPEG2>analogue PAL>MPEG2 recording and watched back on a 55" 2160p screen!

  • JSpaced10 JSpaced but Christmas 🎄 #BLM (@JSpaced10) reported

    @TheWarLlama Why does it feel like three seasons is Netflix’s hard limit for new content, while having billions of seasons of unwatchable crap available on Freeview?

  • RyanDaniel3 Ryan Daniel (@RyanDaniel3) reported

    @FreeviewAdvice I live in cardiff but receiving gloucester and Bristol channels on my freeview I've retuned many times. How can I fix this?

  • enajydoom Jane (@enajydoom) reported

    @jackiepatie @BertrandRustles I only have freeview and Netflix. No sky, no Disney, no Amazon. I’ve never seen the thing people are talking about.

  • Page_888 Matthew H (@Page_888) reported

    @sgordon_the87 @russty_russ The signal was very weak at the time, I bought a DTT set top from Currys just before Freeview launched. ITV2 was on-air from 2.35pm - midnight. Aside from that, little else from them. ITN News Channel unusually aired on the platform from 6am - 9.25am.