Freeview outages and service status in Portsmouth, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Portsmouth, England

The chart below shows the number of Freeview reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Portsmouth, 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 Portsmouth, England

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Ryde, Portsmouth, and Eastleigh.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Ryde	TV	6 days ago
Ryde	TV	11 days ago
Portsmouth	TV	21 days ago
Portsmouth	TV	23 days ago
Portsmouth	TV	28 days ago
Portsmouth	TV	1 month ago

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Portsmouth, England

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

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  Marilyn McCubbin (@Bermudgirl) reported 8 minutes ago from Netley, England

  @FreeviewAdvice Can you help me please. I am now relying on Freeview. My tv has HD but Freeview isn’t. How do I get my Freeview into HD. It’s not a pleasure to watch. Thank you.

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  Chris (@chris_sucksmith) reported 23 minutes ago from East Cowes, England

  One bad thing about #Freeview TV is all the begging adverts. Ignore em all, ain't contributing towards inflated staff salaries. Plenty of local little charities.

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  john knights (@JohnJpsk) reported 24 minutes ago from Eastleigh, England

  Shit on TV tonight.... But this Freeview 231 takes the biscuit...

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  RoboJ1M (@RoboJ1M) reported 58 minutes ago from Portsmouth, England

  @Sonic_Sinclair @bbcmicrobot Technically it is, there's support for it in DVB. There's several channels on DVB satellite that uses it, not sure there's any on freeview. Certainly all the original services shutdown or moved to MHEG. The BBC mheg service was incredible but that's shutdown now too 🙁

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Peter Melvyn714 ( Somewhere in N.E. England, U.K.) (@peter_melvyn) reported 3 minutes ago

  The 1970s : "Those were the Days" on Freeview : What really pisses me right off is most of the ******** spouting off total bullshite about the 1970s weren't even born so why don't they get a proper job and stop making themselves look like a superior *******.

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  4comall (@topselfy) reported 4 minutes ago

  I bet the advertisers on #Freeview movie channels must be making a massive loss with all really old war and western films they put on but only all the actors dead most of the people that remember these films will be dead as well. Who the hell likes these **** old movies?

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  Free Speech ☮ 💙#WelfareNotWarfare (@FreeSpeech_0) reported 4 minutes ago

  @philmckinnon2 @UKChange I looked at reviews for Freely, and they were poor - so we need to keep Freeview.

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  🦔 Freda 🦔 (@freda646) reported 5 minutes ago

  @DameBucket @griffonline @A1an_M Not for iPlayer it hasn't. You already have to be logged in to use it and they could disable viewing of videos until the login was attached to a TV Licence. As for TV over the aerial, when they turn off Freeview it will all be IPlayer for BBC access.

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  Pratab Ali (@pratab_a) reported 6 minutes ago

  @jdpoc If more people paid attention in science classes at school and continued interest in science they'd probably better informed of all the tech challenges with freeview signal. Since myself being on freeview, 4G arrived

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  mgtyorks (@mgtyorks) reported 7 minutes ago

  @FreeviewAdvice transmitter fault with Weaverthorpe transmitter since power cut yesterday. No BBC channels except HD, and no BBC radio channels on freeview. 2 TVs, signal checked, retuned, other channels unaffected, others report same issue

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  Ronin (@Ronin54879638) reported 9 minutes ago

  @MarkM1177 @jdpoc No broadband ere , no phone line , no connection, mobile signal patchy , so yes Freeview only .

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  Patrick Kirby (@Kirby_1475) reported 10 minutes ago

  @themarketsniper Hi Francis. I am sorry that you are undervalued by freeview er... investors? I do not and have never undervalued anyones efforts which I always thought took time and a great deal of effort. You withdrawing is a huge loss to the community, but I understsnd, why shouldnt you? next-

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  Matthew (@PaganOnTour) reported 10 minutes ago

  The welsh freeview is crap, I tuned my tv in it picks up the welsh freeview only not English and I wanted to use it last night for talksport or lbc radio on freeview and its only got half, like all bbc smooth & heart

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  Jennifer Thetford-Kay (@JenKteach) reported 12 minutes ago

  Terrestrial television, received through an aerial, often known as Freeview, is under serious threat of being scrapped. Within months the Government will decide whether to turn off terrestrial signals and rely solely on internet-based TV (IPTV) in the future. This would mean that every household would be forced to take out an expensive fixed broadband contract if they wished to continue watching their favourite TV programmes. Radio reception and signals for emergency services could also be put at risk. Millions of older and disabled people, and those on low and modest incomes, would lose their essential access to TV to keep them in touch with the world and to prevent isolation and loneliness. Lynette, aged 80, who lives in Kent, says: “Free Terrestrial TV is essential for me – whether it’s for entertainment, the news or even learning new things from magazine shows. I don’t want to be choosing apps and making new accounts, I don’t want a screen that pops up with the TV trying to work out what I want to watch. I’ve tried watching television programmes online with family members, and they stop part way through with a whirling circle and then an error message appears. I tried a streaming service and didn’t like it. It is time-consuming and irritating trying to work out where I want to be, to remember the sequence of clicks, with hieroglyphics instead of words. If I make a mistake I have to start again. I have more important things to remember than clogging up my memory with unnecessary information. With my TV in my kitchen, and the normal channels through an aerial, I can leave a channel on that I know I like. I’m worried that the government will decide to take that away from me and others, who either don’t like, can’t afford or can’t use online versions”. The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are all working together to convince the Government to take the drastic step of an early transition to IPTV, without any genuine concern about the millions who would lose out from such a move. IPTV would mean the end of a near universal free to air service, currently reaching 98.5% of households, where national moments of celebration and crisis can be shared. Although the Government maintains that it has an open mind, the lobbying of the broadcasters is intense, and elements in the Government want to use an IPTV switchover as a battering ram in forcing the UK population to accept, and pay for, the digital revolution. A recent Government stakeholder consultation exercise to inform the Minister in making his decision was heavily biased in favour of a rushed move to all-IPTV. In contrast, the petitioners do not oppose IPTV in principle but would like to see the current hybrid system, where households can choose between the two systems, or continue with both as a safety net, be maintained for an extended period. This petition, published by Silver Voices with the support of the Digital Poverty Alliance and the Broadcast 2040+ Coalition, calls on the Government to decide in favour of the viewer and pledge to keep Freeview terrestrial TV until at least the mid- 2040s.