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Freeview Outage Map

The map below depicts the most recent cities in the United Kingdom where Freeview users have reported problems and outages. If you are experiencing problems with Freeview, please submit a report below.

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The heatmap above shows where the most recent user-submitted and social media reports are geographically clustered. The density of these reports is depicted by the color scale as shown below.

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Freeview is the United Kingdom's digital terrestrial television platform. It is operated by DTV Services Ltd, a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky and transmitter operator Arqiva.

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Most Affected Locations

Outage reports and issues in the past 15 days originated from:

Location Reports
London, England 180
Nottingham, England 72
Scarborough, England 71
Manchester, England 58
Southampton, England 57
Birmingham, England 55
Glasgow, Scotland 47
Cardiff, Wales 46
Milton Keynes, England 46
Clacton-on-Sea, England 43
Caerphilly, Wales 40
Bristol, England 38
Leeds, England 36
Sheffield, England 28
Edinburgh, Scotland 28
York, England 27
Brighton, England 26
Portsmouth, England 24
Swindon, England 24
Liverpool, England 23
Worthing, England 22
Reading, England 22
Croydon, England 21
Colchester, England 19
Chingford, England 18
Exeter, England 18
Stoke-on-Trent, England 18
Derby, England 18
Tower Hamlets, England 17
Norwich, England 16

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Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • InspectorMorose Inspector Morose 小麦 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇳🇺🇦 (@InspectorMorose) reported

    @jenbren1976 Nope. I’m on Freeview, and had no problems. I noticed C4 News wasn’t live-streaming though, at 7-8pm

  • StarShipSofa StarShipSofa (@StarShipSofa) reported

    @adamfootdev Hi Adam, sorry to be a pest. That Freeview isn’t in the AppleTV store. I love yours and Apple TV just out. Your app is so clean and tidy. Could it be tweaked just to show 8hrs? Even if it was a pro version at an extra cost. And id give you a nice plug on my shows to help

  • shaunie233 shaun.russell (@shaunie233) reported

    @dickiematthews5 Freeview 26 listen to him, awful

  • InformedCit1zen LifeIsAScam(and thats ok) (@InformedCit1zen) reported

    @TheCryptoSniper CoT report flashing long also…any chance for a freeview update to cover this soon? Think we could be due for some nice pops in altcoins??? Feeling short term bullish myself enough to make a quick buck before down only starts again.

  • mpr147 Michael Rogers (@mpr147) reported

    @pablomcfc83 @bt_uk Agree mate. We pay extra for Now TV but the internet hardly ever works for us to access it. We just wrote that off but some days we can’t even watch the basic freeview channels as we ‘can’t get a signal’. We’ve learnt from our mistakes. We will go back to Sky asap.

  • SkyHelpTeam Sky Help Team (@SkyHelpTeam) reported

    @elovabloke Hey Jeff 👋 You can plug an Aerial into the back to gain access to freeview when the internet is down, or plug a device into it through the HDMI slots to use. Thanks, Ross.

  • GavHugh86 Gav Hughes (@GavHugh86) reported

    @guardian_sport @mrewanmurray Interesting @mrewanmurray - re: TV deal (from UK perspective), if they don’t get Sky or a Freeview channel, and on basis network would not be paying them in first year, would they not be in a worse position being on obscure subscription channel in terms of eyeballs?

  • retrofan1980 Mark (@retrofan1980) reported

    My Freeview signal is crap tonight.

  • 1Soloneo WeAreLegion ❤️ ♤ 🌈☮️ (@1Soloneo) reported

    @JackBurton80s @sometimesjohn @anon_opin £60 a month is criminal. Who’s stupid enough to pay for that when you can wait a bit & have that crap everyone else has paid for for free on freeview?

  • PlexNetflix Martin Phillp 🔶 (@PlexNetflix) reported

    @boodleoodlesjw Oh right, it's the same thing but through a tv. I thought if you connect an aerial to it that the Freeview tuner kicks in when the net is down?

  • fitzylyn Lyn Fitzgerald (@fitzylyn) reported

    @FreeviewTV Hi I'm having trouble trying to connect to freeview here in the South East..is there a problem?

  • Dookist @Dookist (@Dookist) reported

    I’ve been awake since 2:45am… now’t to do but try and find something interesting on tv. Eventually found a programme which was ok, then 10 minutes ago, 90% of the FreeView channels just went off air.. signal lost… What’s going on?!

  • iadmcintyre Iain McIntyre (@iadmcintyre) reported

    @c4 why are your times out by an hour? I sat down to watch the Grand Prix at 11:30. Got some chat show instead. Checked online and the whole schedule on Freeview is an hour slow. At least I haven't missed the GP.

  • Rc8rW Chris Wilson (@Rc8rW) reported

    @Channel4 Has anyone else noticed that channel 4s Freeview TV guide schedules are an hour out? Meaning that series record isn't working either. The guide is showing that shows are on an hour earlier than they start!!! What a terrible mistake!

  • DJGaryBaldy DJGaryBaldy (@DJGaryBaldy) reported

    @UKTVPlay I seem to have narrowed down the problem of series links not moving onto the next episode. It's only when I dial up a program from the Freeview play listings If I watch an episode direct on the app it plays the next episode just fine. #freeviewPlay error.

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