Cost and difficulty of adding an aerial socket for a front room TV

[NewspaperTaxis]

We're getting someone in to decorate the front room - but before that we could do with an aerial socket in there for a TV in the alcove for future use. (We still use Freeview.)
We already have an aerial on the roof, for the Freeview telly in the other living room.

How difficult a job is it to get another lead from the TV aerial down to the ground floor front room? Is it a tricky or costly job? Thanks for anyone who can help on this!

I’m not sure it’s worth the cost. At which ever point you buy a new TV you won’t need it.

But I don't want a smart TV particularly - the Panasonic Viera I have in my living room is just fine!
Does everything else just work off the Wi-fi then? Sorry, I am a Luddite on this stuff.

A Freely tele might be cheaper.

An aerial engineer would do the work, it's quite simple. It's also a fairly easy DIY job, But if you already have broadband then a Freely tele would be so much simpler, and you get HD pictures for channels in addition to the main 5.

Not that tricky or costly, a regular job for a local TV aerials person. Usually run it down outside the house and drill in through outside wall. You'll need to decide where you want the socket itself and they'll run the cable to it, usually along skirting boards or under carpet.

We had this 5 years ago - old tv aerial on the roof of our new house, but no longer connected. Think it was £60 to get it reconnected

Yes, about £60 when we had it done 4 years ago.

Definitely worth it. We lost internet for 4 days recently when our router broke down, and we were very glad of old fashioned telly. Ditto radio as Alexa didn't work.

Terrestrial television is going to be turned off eventually, and probably in 2034

Sorry to return to this thread, but is this the kind of job a reasonably proficient electrician could do? We have a regular who does all kinds of jobs such as moving plugs, and he thinks he can do this.
Or would you go instead with someone who does TV arial installations?

Pretty sure anyone could do it! It’s not complicated. But just ask your electrician and if not, find an aerial guy

An electrician (or handyman) could do it. A couple of things that may cause issues are working at height if you need to fork the cable from the aerial on the roof, and a chance that reception is not great and you need a booster. An aerial expect would sort those.

Hence why I said it might be easier to buy a Freely TV and stream over IP

@Rollercoaster1920 has given genius advice. Have a similar issue and have checked out Freely. Thank you.

@NewspaperTaxis If you use ChatGPT enter your question with Rollercoaster's answer and ask it to suggest your best course of action keeping your current TV and ask for the steps one at a time so that you might be able to tackle it yourself.

The time machine ticket to 2002 might cost more than its worth but can you pick me up a Cadburys Secret bar while you are there please?