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.

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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 9 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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  JR (@JonnyRoLi) reported 24 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.

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  wok (@Oliver_Wok) reported 44 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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  Adam Widdrington (@AddingRandomWit) reported 59 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

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Popeye (@PopeyeFreeview) reported 4 minutes ago

  Worst case scenario on That's TV channels on Freeview I'm posting this because Freeview channel 75 That's Entertainment deadline is over and nothing been broadcasting yet the deadline was on Wednesday 22nd July 2026. Freeview channel 7 & 8 That's Local channels are not affected by this. All That's channels on Freeview will be removed from the EPG without notice. The date will be on Wednesday 29th July 2026 Freeview channel 56 That's TV closed Freeview channel 65 That's TV 2 closed Freeview channel 71 That's 20th Century closed Freeview channel 76 That's 60s closed Freeview channel 77 That's 60s Manchester closed Freeview channel 78 That's 70s closed Freeview channel 79 That's Oldies closed Freeview channel 80 Manchester will close 100% on Wednesday 29th July 2026 Freeview channel 93 That's Classics closed 2 channels have already closed on Freeview Freeview channel 85 That's TV 2 closedown on 26th May 2026 Freeview channel 86 That's 20th closedown on 26th May 2026

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  Vic (@cra46159) reported 6 minutes ago

  I watch Al Jazeera - I get the truth from this site, & I'm more likely to get it here than from our own crap MSM. Freeview also on Ch 251. It's Arab, but good Arab 👍

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  Chef Paul (@ChefPaul41) reported 9 minutes ago

  Reckon we had better offerings on TV last week in our lodge ( caravan ) with Freeview than we do back home with virgin media. TV sucks.

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  LDH Marketing (@LDHMarketing) reported 11 minutes ago

  @BBCLookEast With landlines becoming broadband only, and Freely starting to replace Freeview we are becoming 100% dependent on broadband. That has dangerous implications for resilence if broadband goes down, or worse if you never had adequate broadband at all.

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  Tommy D (@TomDennison12) reported 13 minutes ago

  @FractalDoctor @DailyMail TV and radio is all that many elderly people have for comfort, especially living on their own with limited mobility, so yes, taking away Freeview is a bad idea. I doubt if too many 80 to 90 year olds have a fast broadband connection !

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  Andrew Osborne (@AOzborne) reported 13 minutes ago

  @LillacTyanu @Selene_Mariposa “BBC is put on all TVs via freeview by default” WTF are you talking about??

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  Levelling down (@LevellingDown) reported 15 minutes ago

  @reformparty_uk Freeview TV is yesterday's free-to-air. Freely is the future. Still free, still the same crap.

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  x (@sk_tony) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Selene_Mariposa The law says you need to be covered by a TV Licence to: watch or record TV on any channel - via any TV service (e.g. Sky or Freeview) or watch TV live on any streaming service On any device. You can opt out n if you don’t do the above. So it is not a tax for simply owning a TV

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  Blake (@BlakeAntcliff) reported 22 minutes ago

  @SheLovesTweets @theipaper Freely TV's are the same as Freeview and Freesat, the problem is Internet only doesn't take into account people who live in blackspots and barely get anything much better than old school dial up. Nor does it account for anyone who doesn't want/have broadband.

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  Allan Foxall (@AirAcademy) reported 23 minutes ago

  BBC TV Presenter Clive Myrie stated he doesn't have a television in his house and the termination of FREEVIEW should not be a problem to him. 🌐