Freeview outages and service status in Smethwick, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Smethwick, England

The chart below shows the number of Freeview reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Smethwick, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, England

The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: West Bromwich, Birmingham, Kidderminster, Walsall, Tipton, Wolverhampton, Wednesbury, Bilston, Oldbury, and Sutton Coldfield.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
West Bromwich	TV	5 days ago
Birmingham	TV	5 days ago
Birmingham	TV	5 days ago
Kidderminster	TV	5 days ago
Kidderminster	TV	5 days ago
Walsall	Total Blackout	5 days ago

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Freeview Issues Reports Near Smethwick, England

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in Smethwick and nearby locations:

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  🐺Wolfish (@unit_1974) reported 6 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @Matey30 @virginmedia Nothing less than I’ve come to expect from them. Service has been so bad which is why we’ve left their tv service. Had to keep the broadband for now due to limitations of other local providers. Now watching freeview…

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  Damien Ashton-Wellman (@DamienAshton) reported 15 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  Looking through the festive TV schedule and there's no Muppet Christmas Carol on any of the freeview channels this year. Never wanted @DisneyPlus to launch more than right now.

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  Elliott Brown (@ellrbrown) reported 17 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @mrgrahamreed @BBCiPlayer I think I only saw season 1 on Sky 3 on Freeview. Never saw the rest of it. The classic '70s Battlestar got shown on BBC 2, in the '90s.

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  Tom Poole (@TomPoole007) reported 17 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  @virtualash tell your boys your TV quality is poor on Freeview. Whale's head will not look fuzzy. This can't be allowed to happen.

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  Jason Genders (@genders_jason) reported 27 minutes ago from Walsall Wood, England

  @madaboutHolly @Lee_JM75 Who's watching this bad boy on Freeview channel 70 ,Horror, right now😁💩💩💩

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  emily (@xemilywalker) reported 34 minutes ago from Solihull, England

  The worrrrrst thing is, I’ve never had a telly in my room, never wanted one but that means tomorrow my mom and dad will be watching something awful in the back living room so ill be in the front living room with just freeview channels hahahaha **** off

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  Grumpy Stan.🎼 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 📻 (@grumpyoldstan) reported 37 minutes ago from Tamworth District, England

  @itvnews I complained about that awful erectile disfunction advert that appears on some Freeview channels, sometimes in the day & at teatimes, when kids will be watching & they didn't do anything! They said it was fine. It's not nice when young grandkids ask what erectile disfunction is!

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  georgie green (@geovilla77) reported 39 minutes ago from Bromsgrove, England

  You don’t realise how awful freeview is until your waiting for the sky man to come to your house 🥴

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  Damien Ashton-Wellman (@DamienAshton) reported 49 minutes ago from Birmingham, England

  Looking through the festive TV schedule and there's no Muppet Christmas Carol on any of the freeview channels this year. Never wanted @DisneyPlus to launch more than right now.

Freeview Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  The Opinionater (@StoneAgeDodger) reported 3 minutes ago

  @leeburridge @panonse @premnsikka Freesat reception better than Freeview in many places all that we needs is a storm to roll over and old skool minecraft starts streaming then no signal.

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  The Under Dog (@mattq660256) reported 5 minutes ago

  It's obvious all the freeview so called news channels are not news channels its so obvious with what they say and what they fail to say which should be said!!!???

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  John Shale (@JohnShale864551) reported 9 minutes ago

  @UKLabour I'd say there are enough channels on Freeview for the open university to train up the people we need for #NHS etc. foreign pupils could enrol and pay for registration. it could even support advertising and be used similar to the bbc overses broadcasts in WWII

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  Neil (@darthmorley) reported 10 minutes ago

  Enjoyed the seniors snooker, congrats to Ronnie O'Sullivan. Love the great Cliff Thorburn's way of saying snooker - "snucker"! Although Channel 5 shouldn't keep switching to 5 Action as the picture quality on Freeview is terrible!!

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  x (@sk_tony) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Selene_Mariposa The law says you need to be covered by a TV Licence to: watch or record TV on any channel - via any TV service (e.g. Sky or Freeview) or watch TV live on any streaming service On any device. You can opt out n if you don’t do the above. So it is not a tax for simply owning a TV

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  nick renshaw (@nickrenshaw5) reported 13 minutes ago

  @BBC I hear that Freeview is being turned off at some point in the future. Well you will lose my payment for the TV licence as that's how I watch TV & if you get rid then I won't be able to watch & I'll cancel my licence. Not a very clever decision to make is it?

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  Leya 🟥🟪⬜️🟩🟧 (@_Leyanelle_) reported 15 minutes ago

  Does anyone who sees this know how to watch ITV WC other than via the app when you don’t have access to freeview? The STV app is forced on us Scottish viewers by ITV & is utter CRAP quality for live footie & I don’t have access to freeview, I use a fire stick & no aerial. 😭😭😭

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  i am a boy of the eighties (@gilililibo99902) reported 16 minutes ago

  That's 80s was a 24-hour music television channel from That's TV that played 1980s music hits. It closed its linear broadcast on Sky and Freeview on February 28, 2026, but continues as a streaming service on FAST platforms like Rakuten TV and Pluto TV

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  Enamel (@gin_vodka_fan) reported 19 minutes ago

  COMMENT: It needs an internet subscription, also an aerial for some progs, if your internet is slow you lose all progs, the manufacturers claim it's the internet problem so you cannot return the TV. It's a complete con for the companies to save supplying Freeview. 🤔🤔🤔

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  Red Moon 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🍁 🇬🇱 (@Undercover_mole) reported 22 minutes ago

  @GBNEWS Problem is Freely isn't free.... You need a broadband connection costing you tens of pounds per month. Where as Freeview and Freesat are actually free to view.