Freeview outages and service status in Pontypool, Wales

Problems in the last 24 hours in Pontypool, Wales

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

Live Outage Map Near Pontypool, Wales

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Newport.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Newport	TV	4 days ago
Pontypool	TV	2 months ago
Hengoed	TV	2 months ago
Caerphilly	TV	2 months ago
Caerphilly	TV	3 months ago
Treharris	TV	3 months ago

Nearby cities with recent reports

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Pontypool, Wales

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

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  Simon 🤖 (@uncriticalsimon) reported 6 minutes ago from Newport, Wales

  Why is the BBC World Service so hard to obtain EXCEPT in the one area which is explicitly not the target audience? In the UK the World Service is available 24/7 on DAB and I think Freeview and Freesat/Sky.

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  Ian Cleverly (@IanCleverly06) reported 11 minutes ago from Trethomas, Wales

  Just an FYI @DMAX_UK but you've just showed Series 3 Ep10 of #Archer, when the Freeview EPG (and your website) has you showing the correct in order Ep 9. It has the same down for the Sat midnight showing (ie Ep 10 is listed in you'll show Ep 9)

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  Simon 🥑🚟🚅😈💉💉💉 (@uncriticalsimon) reported 21 minutes ago from Newport, Wales

  .@Freeview question - how come the PSB muxes aren’t treated equally? The BBC one and the HD one seem to have a much better signal from Wenvoe than the “normal” ITV one. (I can get Mendip off a random bit of metal.)

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  Jonathan (@jonnyhern) reported 38 minutes ago from Pontypool, Wales

  @Thomoli @PhilipsCare_UK I’ve been waiting 8 weeks for same issue not worked for me since I bought my TV. I dont have an aeriel tho just satellite cable connected & internet but no catch up aps work or freeview

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  BrendanB (@Brendan80704486) reported 25 seconds ago

  @superTV247 Simple answer of course would just be to let viewers decide and make the tv licence voluntary. If people want the BBC they will pay for it. The licence is a poll tax - the poorest and the richest pay the same - and very regressive. Why force the poor to pay to watch freeview tv

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  Binaryjam (@BinaryJam) reported 2 minutes ago

  @john_seto Have they announced the end of UHF? I'm on Freesat Vs Freeview, I lose the signal in heavy rain.

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  'darnstadium' (@darnstadium) reported 7 minutes ago

  There's an interesting problem here. Switching off Freeview would make spectrum available for 5/6G, but at the (enormous) cost of putting all that bandwidth on existing connections. Not least all the perfectly good non-smart TVs that would become E-waste overnight.

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  Hugh (@shugiehughie) reported 9 minutes ago

  Sheffield Wednesday v Bradford on Freeview 8pm . . My Football fix for today after I finish work

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  Anne Wells (@annewells26) reported 10 minutes ago

  @NotFarLeftAtAll All part of controlling us. I don’t have TV packages only Freeview & my internet is bad so don’t watch much anyway, barely anything in summer. Unfair for the elderly.

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  Jeremy Robson 🏍️🐶 (@JemRobson01) reported 10 minutes ago

  Labour **** ups w/e 5/7/26 Plan to end freeview Burnham on the ropes about the cost of his living 'up north' Teachers get 17% pat rise since election Still no chancellor announced Labour admit they were not prepared 1900 less teachers than 2025

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  Nigel Keeling (@Traighbon08) reported 11 minutes ago

  @reformparty_uk Most working classes have a dodgy stick and pay about £100 for every channel known to man. They couldn't give a **** about Freeview. You clearly know your voters.

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  Bryan (@htfc2) reported 14 minutes ago

  @MartinAsto6999 @NzFubar TVNZ+ has the WC rights. They are also after the rights for the NRL off sky. According to my local tv aerial guy we have only another 18 months of satellite service left, we latched onto a S.Korean one. Freeview will disappear, everything will have to be subscription.

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  🇺🇦Tazfaedodge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇺🇦PS (@tazfaedodge) reported 15 minutes ago

  @BigFuzzyYak It can have some good stuff on it. After dinner time, Morning TV is crap. And right now I think they have most of the World Cup Football games on. But most of daytime TV on all channels are crap, unless you go to the freeview or even Sky.

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  Winston Marshall (@MrWinMarshall) reported 16 minutes ago

  Dystopian. The UK gov paper for alternative and social media censorship in the name of protecting “trustworthy” news platforms makes for chilling reading. Lisa Nandy’s Dep for culture, media and sport’s censorial propositions are yet another attempt to protect the establishment from the people. Read it for yourself - “People are increasingly accessing news online, rather than through more regulated spaces like Freeview on their TV sets. This is weakening the ability of trustworthy news providers to reach audiences and shape informed public debate.” The word “trustworthy” here is Orwellian. They mean by it news acceptable to the regime. Mainstream media is not trustworthy in the eyes of the public, for good reason. “Overall trust in UK news has dropped, and only 45% of adults feel confident judging whether a source is truthful. This rise in untrustworthy news and corresponding decline in trust in news pose a risk to the public’s ability to access accurate information.” This is the fault of mainstream media. They have been blatantly biased for decades. The response to the rise in alternative media is for MSM to try and become more truthful, less biased, and honest to the public AND THEMSELVES about their bias. And certainly NOT to censor or throttle alternative media. “[Social media] makes it more difficult for trustworthy news providers to find, maintain and monetise an audience, with repercussions for the commercial viability of public interest journalism.” I.e. regime interest journalism If mainstream media is to be saved it needs to drastically improve its product, and focus on youtube and social media as outlets, it needs to adapt to the media market not try and make the media market adapt to them. How is it that they are so lacking in self-awareness? Ultimately this is a war they can’t win. The question is - how long will it go on. And what damage will be done along the way.