FALKLAND ISLANDS GOVERNMENT
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
01 September 2024
Island Wide Television and Radio Services Outages
Residents of Stanley and Camp are advised that there will be a disruption to TV and radio services due to sun outages affecting satellite reception in late August into September.
The outages are due to disruption of the signal from the satellite to BFBS receivers by the sun’s rays and are completely unavoidable.
The outages, which began on Saturday 30 August 2025, are expected to continue until Sunday 7 September 2025. The outages will occur daily, running from approximately 11:25am to 11:41am local time, at their maximum. The length of outage will increase each day, peak on Wednesday 3 September and then reduce down again. This can cause disruption to TV and Radio reception across the Islands including MiPlayer.
MiPlayer users should understand that any programmes broadcast during the outage will be impacted if also available via catchup.
Once the outage is over, everything should return to normal, BFBS will however monitor the situation and be ready to rectify any problems. It is recommended that people do not retune their TV or Satellite box during the outage.
Customers are asked to report any issues persisting after 12pm on each day using the following methods;
For BFBS TV, BFBS Radio and MiPlayer,
Contact the BFBS Technical Office at MPC on 32179 (0800-1600 Mon to Fri)
For Falklands Radio,
For all Falklands Radio issues contact Falklands Radio direct on 27275 or admin@radio.co.fk
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