Freeview outages and service status in Smethwick, England
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- Freeview generated 0 outage signals in the last 24 hours around Smethwick, including 0 direct reports.
- The most common problems reported in this area mention TV, Wi-fi, and Total Blackout.
- The most recent signal from this area was received Jun 14, 6:20 PM GMT+1.
- TV (44%)
- Wi-fi (33%)
- Total Blackout (22%)
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.
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.
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Live Outage Map Near Smethwick, England
The most recent Freeview outage reports came from the following cities: Wednesbury, Oldbury, Walsall, Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, Wolverhampton, Tamworth, West Bromwich, Tipton, and Kidderminster.
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Wednesbury
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Wi-fi | 1 day ago |
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Wednesbury
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Wi-fi | 2 days ago |
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Oldbury
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TV | 7 days ago |
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Walsall
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Total Blackout | 10 days ago |
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Birmingham
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TV | 10 days ago |
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Sutton Coldfield
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Total Blackout | 11 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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Grumpy Stan.🎼 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧 📻 (@grumpyoldstan) reported 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 from Bromsgrove, EnglandYou 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 from Birmingham, EnglandLooking 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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emily (@xemilywalker) reported from Solihull, EnglandThe 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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🐺Wolfish (@unit_1974) reported 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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Jason Genders (@genders_jason) reported from Walsall Wood, England@madaboutHolly @Lee_JM75 Who's watching this bad boy on Freeview channel 70 ,Horror, right now😁💩💩💩
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Damien Ashton-Wellman (@DamienAshton) reported from Birmingham, EnglandLooking 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 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 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.
Freeview Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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west witch🇬🇧🏴 (@wishful5thinkin) reported@Benleo @virginmedia Cancel it & stop your DD. Get a freeview mini box & pay for Disney
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Scott Artus (@artuscartoons) reportedI know we've got a bad storm here etc. But I can't understand why the superfast broadband won't work or stream movies, but the digital freeview aerial works.
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Tom Amos (@Tom_Amos) reported@langerz10 @connor_naismith I’ll be honest I typed that whilst chopping some salad and I don’t think I even know what I meant by **** all happened. I think my main point is Crewe fans have rarely contributed to radio Stoke when they’ve been on other frequencies. Why is freeview so bad?
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riz vuocolo (@VuocoloRiz) reported@DebNZ4 lol. wot a clown . not havin a new decoder box freeview kinda sucks coz that would be fukin gold.. i saw some of the interview .. *** she rambles lmao...
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Adrian Caswell (@CaswellAdrian) reported@kenton1206 I did the same with Virgin Mafia. It was going up to £90 for little more than Freeview and ok broadband. Swapped to a Cityfibre service (small firm based in Worthing even though I live in Peterborough) and bought a Netgem Plieo. Less than half the cost, should’ve done it sooner.
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Breaking News (@MattMoore2025) reported@MetroUK Close down loads of channels that isn't important and keep the ones going why have we got loads of pointless channels on freeview Freesat Virgin and sky
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The Wilder Way - Patrick Wymark Boardroom (@Wyfan2) reportedSo the advantage of Freely is that unlike Freeview, when my internet goes down I also lose my TV. Technology continues to improve our lives.
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CharlesWynfordLodge (@2hrTV) reported@BENEFITS_NEWS I don't understand what switching off Freeview does, except I assume forces people to pay for everything? We have an Amazon Fredrick thing but the channels are apps. It's crap half the TV channels you can't even get on it. Freeview is better.
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ian draper (@iandraper84) reported@frmichaeltoomey @ITVX There were no issues with my Saorview/Freeview compibox.
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365 Days of Dave (@timbcaycgi) reported@ChrisHazzardSF My understanding is that RTE services work on the Freeview platform via terrestrial signal deep beyond the boarder counties. With RTE themselves saying that the signal strength is high in the boarder region and moderate beyond