FREEVIEW viewers in more than 160 areas across the UK are being warned that “pixelation or flickering” could affect TV sets this week.
The digital television platform will be carrying out planned engineering works over the next few days, to ensure the service continues to run smoothly for its millions of UK customers.
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“Sometimes engineering work is required on transmitters so that they can keep reliably broadcasting your favourite free-to-air programmes”, Freeview bosses said.
Customers affected by the engineering works have been urged not to try and retune their televisions.
“Reception will be restored as soon as the engineering work is completed”, Freeview said.
160 Areas To Be Affected
A total of 160 areas will be affected by the engineering works, which will be carried out on the areas’ transmitters.
To check what transmitter you are predicted to get your signal from, you can put your postcode into Freeview’s Detailed Transmitter Information tool to check.
Freeview has warned that areas affected by the engineering works may possible see “pixelation or flickering on some or all channels”.
Earlier this month, over 100 areas were affected by Freeview engineering works, with some viewers left with black screens.
Areas Affected By Freeview Engineering works
The following transmitters will be affected by the engineering works:
How To Watch Freeview Online
If you don’t want to miss out on your favourite TV shows, whilst the engineering works are taking place, you can also watch Freeview on a connected TV via Freeview Play, on mobile phones and tablets through the mobile app and on the Freeview website.
The easiest way to way to access on-demand players such as BBC iPlayer and ITVX on your Freeview Play TV is simply to push Channel 100.
You can download the Freeview app on the App Store or Google Play Store.
This will give you access on your phone or tablet to an abundance of channels, such as BBC One and Channel 4.
To watch TV via the website, simply head to the TV Guide and click on a channel.
Recent Freeview Updates
This comes after Freeview viewers were urged to re-scan their TV boxes, following a huge channel change.
Channel 4 has boosted Freeview coverage for one of its channels in June, meaning if you haven’t already, you’ll need to retune to continue watching.
As part of Freeview’s monthly channel update, 4seven transitioned to a new frequency as of Wednesday 18 June, 2025.
This is because of an important technical change to the way the Channel 4 offshoot channel is broadcast on Freeview.
It will give more Freeview users access to the channel at a time when 4seven is increasingly used as an overspill for live events.
A popular Freeview box also received a key upgrade last month which fixed a bug affecting a slew of features.
Manhattan released the software update for its T4-R and T4 Freeview boxes.
The latest version – 2.06 – will finally fix a long-standing standby mode issue that has affected a number of users.
