Freeview outages and service status in Houghton-Le-Spring, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Houghton-Le-Spring, England

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

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Crook, Seaham, Sunderland, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Gateshead.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Crook	TV	18 days ago
Seaham	TV	20 days ago
Sunderland	TV	22 days ago
Newcastle upon Tyne	TV	22 days ago
Gateshead	TV	1 month ago
Gateshead	TV	2 months ago

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Houghton-Le-Spring, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Houghton-Le-Spring and nearby locations:

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  Gerry Carpenter (@GerryCarpenter3) reported 5 minutes ago from Sunderland, England

  @Claire_Pickard @sueashton3000 Many residents in Sunderland & along the Durham Coast also receive Freeview Channels from the Bilsdale transmitter. The fire is also likely to have knocked out about 30 relay stations, which "feed" on signals from Bilsdale. I wouldn't like to climb up the transmitter to fix it!

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  Adam Widdrington (@AddingRandomWit) reported 10 minutes ago from Newcastle upon Tyne, England

  @bigpapablu @itvfootball I don’t have a sky or freeview box! I stream everything and have very good internet so it’s never an issue haha

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  wok (@Oliver_Wok) reported 46 minutes ago from Hartlepool, England

  @edgarwright @broccantyzack @itv2 Would make for a brilliant friday/saturday/sunday triple header. Would love to break it down into how many times a year they appear on freeview TV

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  JR (@JonnyRoLi) reported 58 minutes ago from Newcastle upon Tyne, England

  @Fern_McGovern @SIofting @jckhth Nope. You can pay for a better service. Just as you can have Freeview TV, standard channels, most in standard definition but functional, or you can pay more for Netflix/Amazon/etc, Sky or BT with movies and sport in HD. Same principle applies.

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  South Wales Pragmatist (@WalesPragmatist) reported 2 minutes ago

  @alunsays @EnglandRugby Not in HD on Freeview. For a premium match it's a poor effort from ITV, like watching TV in the 90s...

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  Efootball🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@Efootballgame1) reported 4 minutes ago

  @ollocoll Bring in food stamps. No car, only able to watch freeview, no internet, family of 5 should only get a 3 bed house and use bunk beds. No holidays. No phone contracts. They get a government issue phone. We need to stop rewarding laziness. People with disabilities can have luxuries.

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  Bigwows 💚🤍💜 ✖️✖️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@bigwows) reported 5 minutes ago

  @cmairsy @virginmedia Zen for internet - rock solid and great customer service, not that you’ll need it. But after ditching Virgin we went down the freeview route, I’m afraid.

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  John Shale (@JohnShale864551) reported 10 minutes ago

  @UKLabour I'd say there are enough channels on Freeview for the open university to train up the people we need for #NHS etc. foreign pupils could enrol and pay for registration. it could even support advertising and be used similar to the bbc overses broadcasts in WWII

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  Gary Finney Zair (@finneyzair) reported 16 minutes ago

  @inghamjj55 @TheMekon_Venus I pay towards many services out of my tax that I don’t benefit from, but I’m ok doing it because it means others can benefit. Freeview is the biggest digital platform in the U.K. - used by a lot of peoole aged 60, a % of the licence fee helps maintain that service. 1/2

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  Schemie Goblyn (@SchemieG) reported 17 minutes ago

  @_Leyanelle_ @DaveyTheTroll Stv player had a major habit of freezing randomly then utterly crashing comedically large parts of Dundee down by the Tay are served by the relay transmitter at Tay bridge on the fife side which has a significantly reduced freeview service compared to rest of Dundee

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  Matt Quinn - The Caledonian Television Company. (@Matt_Q_OnX) reported 19 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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  Björn Fri (@bjornfri2020) reported 21 minutes ago

  @LeeHurstComic Me. They’re probably just all on a different streaming service, but no way am I signing up for another one, just for one show. Pretty sure it’ll be a lame as The Walking Dead from season 7 onwards. 11 is too many; the energy is gone. I’ll wait till the whole lot is on Freeview.

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  Essex Baldy (@darrensharp73) reported 23 minutes ago

  @TalkTV @cjsnowdon @iancollinsuk I don’t necessarily believe a sub model would work, but as an initial step they should require subscription-based logins at least for their TV and web-based services (radio maybe less practical). Maybe just have SD broadcasts on Freeview and require streaming for HD due to practicalities (Sky shouldn’t be an issue). This way those who don’t pay (for a license) will find it hard to view, and it would also cut off more overseas users who view without paying.

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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.