Based in Southport · covers Banks, Churchtown, Crossens, Ainsdale, Formby
Family-run aerial and satellite installer based in Southport, run by lead engineer Clive Simmonite and trading since 1984 in his own words: digital aerial installation and repair, Freesat and Sky dishes including the jobs Sky refuses at height, TV wall mounting with hidden cables, extra points and multiroom. Public liability insured; quality guaranteed in its own words.
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Fixed-price aerial, Freesat, Sky, Starlink and home-network installer covering Southport, Formby and Ormskirk among many North West towns, run by Andy with four other engineers, a two-year warranty on new fits in its own words. Where it is based is not stated.
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Sole-trader aerial and satellite installer in the PR9 side of Southport, run by Phil Searle from a Facebook page: aerials, dishes and TV installations, contact by phone or WhatsApp.
Based in Southport · covers Formby, Ormskirk · Mobile and premises
TV and electronics repair shop on Hart Street Bridge with over 30 years behind it, which also installs Freeview, Freesat and Sky, multiroom points and wall-mounted TVs, all work guaranteed in its own words. Bigger aerial jobs go to a family sister business.
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Based in Southport · covers Formby, Ormskirk · Mobile and premises
Regional aerial firm with a Southport office on Lord Street, one of five across the North West, established in 1962 in its own words: aerials, Sky and Freesat, multiroom, wall mounting, CCTV and communal systems, with a 12-month guarantee on its work and no call-out charge for a tune-in.
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Family aerial firm founded in Southport in 1953 as R. V. Parker Co Ltd and run by Chris Parker since 1984: aerials and satellite, Sky and Freesat, communal systems for landlords and flats, CCTV, TV over network cable and fault finding, fully insured in its own words.
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Ormskirk-based aerial and satellite installer with over 20 years behind it in its own words, covering West Lancashire and Sefton including Southport and Formby: aerials, Sky and Freesat, Starlink, wall mounting and repairs.
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Listed from public records · details reviewed against the business's own page yesterday
There are 8 tv aerial and satellite installers on this page for Southport, Merseyside, including 3 that cover it from nearby. 1 is verified by its owner. This list is free to be on and nobody pays to move up. It covers the TV aerial, satellite and wall-mounting installers based in Southport in their own words, the TV repair shop that installs, and the installers covering the town from Ormskirk and Wigan, each read from its own page on the date shown. What it leaves off is most of what Google shows you for this search: four of the top ten results for "aerial installer southport" are national call-centre brands with a Southport phone number, and three of those are one company in Glasgow. The people on this page have a van and a name.
How to choose an aerial installer in Southport
Learn the call-centre tell. A site that offers "same day service" in fifty towns, an 0800 number or a 01704 number that forwards, no engineer's name and no address is a lead-generation front: it sells your job to whoever will take it. Three of the sites that rank for Southport trade under three different names from one office in Glasgow. They are not on this page. The installers who are have a name, a base you can see, and a number that rings a person.
Ask what is included in the price. A new aerial is the aerial, the bracket and pole, the cable, the fixing and the tune-in, and a decent installer quotes the lot. Checkatrade puts an average Southport aerial job at £141 to £218 and a wall mount at £59 to £119; a quote that is a fraction of that is a call-out fee with the parts to follow.
Ask about the guarantee. The local firms here state one to two years on new installations; the national fronts tend to say nothing. And ask whether they will come back for a retune, because a lot of "my aerial's gone" calls are a retune or a corroded connector, not a new aerial.
If Sky will not install, a local installer often will. Sky's own engineers refuse awkward roofs and high work; two of the businesses here say plainly that they take the jobs Sky turns down. Freesat is the same dish with no subscription, and every installer here fits it.
Nobody in Southport is on the aerial trade's register. The Confederation of Aerial Industries runs a public finder of its approved installers; the nearest members to Southport are in Blackpool and Preston. That is not a mark against anyone here, it is the state of the trade locally, and the page says so rather than pretending otherwise.
Useful to know in Southport
Four of the ten organic results for "aerial installer southport" on 29 September 2026 were national lead-generation brands, and three of them (Mike Harris Aerial & Satellite, Taylor Aerials, Aerial & Satellite Express) belong to one company, Aerial Services Scotland Ltd, registered in Barrhead near Glasgow, each with its own Southport-area phone number. Another runs matching template sites for Southport, Formby and Ormskirk with no phone number at all. None of them is listed here. Source: Companies House, Aerial Services Scotland Ltd (SC296435); research 29 Sep 2026
The trade body's register. The Confederation of Aerial Industries describes its finder as a way to "search our network of CAI Approved, Trustworthy and Competent, Independent installers". Searched from Southport on 29 September 2026 with a fifty-mile radius, the nearest members were in Blackpool and Preston; no installer in PR8, PR9, Formby or Ormskirk appears. Where a site says "CAI approved equipment", that is the aerial, not the installer. Source: CAI consumer finder (searched 29 Sep 2026)
Retune before you replace. Freeview's own advice: "To get the most up to date service from Freeview it's important to retune from time to time." Missing channels after a change on the transmitter are usually a retune, and most installers here will do that as part of a call-out. Source: Freeview, retune help
Aerial TV has a proposed end date. The Lancashire Telegraph reported in August 2026 that the Winter Hill transmitter above Bolton "could be switched off" under a plan "to turn off aerial TV completely by 2034", while the National Preparedness Commission is calling for it "to stay on air until at least 2044". Nothing is decided; a new aerial fitted now has years of use in it, and every installer on this page also fits satellite and sets up streaming. Source: Lancashire Telegraph, 4 Aug 2026
TV wall mounting
Every aerial firm on this page mounts televisions as well, hidden cables included, and it is often done in the same visit as the aerial. Two wall-mount-only specialists show up in the map results for Southport with hundreds of reviews between them, but neither has a page of its own that we could read, so they are not listed until they do. Use the wall mounting filter.
Nearby
Ormskirk has two long-established aerial firms that cover Sefton and say so, and a Wigan installer names Southport among its areas. They are on this page flagged as nearby. The Liverpool and Manchester regionals that rank for Southport searches are not, because they do not say they are based anywhere near it.
What it costs locally
Few local installers print prices. What is printed around the town's results in September 2026: Checkatrade's Southport averages of £172 for an aerial installation (range £141 to £218) and £82 for a wall mount (£59 to £119); a Lancashire installer's wall mounting from £89 plus the bracket and extra TV points at £49; "no call-out charge" for a tune-in at one local firm. Where an installer on this page prints a price it is on the card.
Frequently asked questions
How much does a new TV aerial cost in Southport?
Around £140 to £220 fitted, going by the averages Checkatrade publishes for the town, and more for a chimney job or a loft aerial with several points. Get the whole price, parts and tune-in included, before anyone climbs a ladder.
Which of the Google results are actually local?
Fewer than half. Four of the top ten for "aerial installer southport" are national lead-generation brands with Southport-area numbers, and three of those are one Glasgow company. This page lists the installers with a name and a base in or near the town.
Do I need a new aerial or just a retune?
If channels vanished after a date rather than a storm, retune first: Freeview says it is important to retune from time to time. If the picture breaks up in wind or rain, it is usually the cable or connector, not the aerial. A local installer will tell you which on the doorstep.
Sky refused to install at my house. Who will?
Local installers routinely take the jobs Sky's own engineers refuse, on steep roofs or awkward walls. Two on this page say so on their own sites. The dish is the same; the visit is priced by the installer.
Is aerial TV being switched off?
There is a proposal to end aerial TV by 2034 and a counter-argument to keep transmitters on until at least 2044. Nothing is decided. A new aerial fitted now has years in it, and every installer here also fits satellite and sets up streaming.
Can I get someone out today?
Some of the firms here state same-day where they can. Ring the mobile numbers on the cards rather than filling in a form; the national sites that promise same-day for the whole country are the ones to avoid.
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