Freeview frustration as users will be left without popular TV channels for weeks

Hundreds of thousands of homes were left without a Freeview signal earlier this week after a huge blaze at the Bilsdale transmitter on the North York Moors caused TV services to go offline. Over 500,000 properties in the North East were thought to have been affected by the outage with left many without access to popular channels from the BBC and ITV along with many radio services disappearing from the airwaves.

Things are now being slowly restored thanks to a temporary transmitter being erected with thousands of users getting a signal back but many will have to suffer without their fix of TV for a few more weeks.

Freeview has now confirmed that a full service won’t be resumed until August 28 at the earliest due to the complexities of fixing the transmitter.