Freeview outages and service status in Kirkwall, Scotland

Problems in the last 24 hours in Kirkwall, Scotland

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

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Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Rob (@MrSugden2) reported 5 minutes ago

  @Guyz20051 It's good. There are a more channels than Freeview but, unless you're into obscure topics, you'll never watch them.

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  Matt Quinn - The Caledonian Television Company. (@Matt_Q_OnX) reported 6 minutes ago

  @iggy1966 @BENEFITS_NEWS They don't really, Chris... However the 'Freely' service currently being touted to replace Freeview in about 15 years time IS a streamed service which WILL be available via set top boxes/inbuilt IP provision in TV sets and probably an 'App'.

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  Matt Quinn - The Caledonian Television Company. (@Matt_Q_OnX) reported 7 minutes ago

  @BENEFITS_NEWS Well for a start the Freeview service is guaranteed until at least 2034 and likely to be phased out over a period of time; unlikely before about 2040. 'Freely' is currently being touted as the IPTV replacement - From about £70 for a set-top box; this price will drop dramatically.

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  séamussssss 🇨🇩🇮🇪 (@gunnerineirinn) reported 14 minutes ago

  @fletcher082 if you watched your dad die of the disease then why put a heart beside it? why not a heart beside your dad? i support the loi, in fact i was the only one in school who did growing up. they stopped showing it on freeview and started again recently. that’s not my fault.

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  Douglass_McFarnham (@douglassfarnham) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Steven59066 He might mean his distant family member anne_widdecombe, which according to rumours on X u apparently killed for trying to cancel freeview itself,

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  Popeye (@PopeyeFreeview) reported 20 minutes ago

  The date of Freeview closure will be revealed in November 2026 by the government. 1 Freeview closure in 2034 more likely 2034 because 6G mobile phone signal will kill all relay Transmitters. 2 Freeview closure in 2044 Only main Transmitters can survive until 2044. Your mobile phone is sharing the same frequency as Freeview Mobile phone Frequency UHF 49 to 69 Freeview Frequency UHF 21 to 48 The future 6G mobile phone Frequency would take most of Freeview space in 2034. Freeview Frequency in 2034 would be UHF 21 to 35 that would close all relay Transmitters

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  The Opinionater (@StoneAgeDodger) reported 20 minutes ago

  @leeburridge @panonse @premnsikka Freesat reception better than Freeview in many places all that we needs is a storm to roll over and old skool minecraft starts streaming then no signal.

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  George (The UK Action Team) (@UKAT_George) reported 25 minutes ago

  Precisely and if the BBC want to discontinue running the freeview service and save money on upkeep of the transmitters why do we have to pay the licence fee. If you decide to only watch non BBC live channels online which you pay for by having broadband then the licence is wrong.

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  Tom H (@TomHLon) reported 27 minutes ago

  @fin_lay24 @OldRoberts953 Nice article, Finlay! Incidentally, I can't help thinking there was more choice and variety when it was just "four boring old channels" than when freeview came along and it became all UK That's Great Drama Yesterday +1.

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  MIdAS is a Potato (@mrmidas2k) reported 29 minutes ago

  @yellowhairdpunk How? Shits on ITV. They have replays literally on the "on demand" app. Yes, the showings aren't live, that sucks, but you can absolutely follow AEW watching regular *** freeview and getting PPV's.